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  "channel_handle": "r/singularity",
  "title": "I don't think we sound crazy to most people anymore. Kinda weirding me out",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1w49udd/i_dont_think_we_sound_crazy_to_most_people/",
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  "upload_date": "20260901",
  "published_at": "2026-09-01T11:58:23+00:00",
  "transcript": "Been generally tracking sentiment on the topic of the Singularity and AI progress for a very long time - on Reddit, in real life, wherever.\n\nA year ago, while people talking about AI progress were starting to be taken seriously, the Singularity still was pretty niche and on places like Reddit people would still not respect any position that tried to argue it seriously, and bubble popping and walls were still primarily how people discussed AI.\n\nThat's been shifting particularly rapidly in the last 8 months, and I think in the last month or so, it suddenly started feeling very different. \n\nIn public, I hear people openly talking about AI \\_everywhere\\_. Not just how they don't like data centers... I hear regular people talking about using agents and freaking out. I've heard that kinda thing at the dog park multiple times over the last few weeks - I try not to even talk about it in places like that to keep some AI free islands... But there really aren't any of those anymore. I hear it at the bar when I go out dancing! It feels like people are really grappling with feeling capabilities rise... Maybe because more and more people are experiencing multiple generations of models now?\n\nIt's not just that people are using advanced models now and are talking about AI capabilities, it's that they are taking seriously the idea that we will have robotics soon. I don't even have to bring it up anymore as a potential future consideration, it's on people's minds already. Jobs, automation, even what it means to be a human being in the future we are building are all regular parts of the conversion, either implicitly or explicitly predicated on concepts like RSI!\n\nI am... Happy? Confused? Pleasantly surprised? \n\nThere are still people who are in denial, very normal, or people who are still out of the loop or just can't understand... But even on other subs here on Reddit that are notorious for not taking AI progress seriously... Well if someone says that AI code is terrible or useless or whatever, it's now just a crowd of people who are \\_not me\\_ arguing with that person. Often people say something to the effect of \"Look dude, I believed this too until a little while ago but I was in denial, I have to use these tools every day and I can't lie to myself about how capable they are anymore and I'm freaking out\".\n\nAnyway... This is good but jarring! Has anyone else noticed?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[1 upvotes] Whatever direction it's going I'm just glad more people are getting educated by engaging in the conversation and using the tools instead of all the ignorant, baseless hatred. No matter which side of the fence they're on, at least they're getting a better grasp on the subject. We need people engaged.\n\n[1 upvotes] Listening news clips on TV (I don't watch TV anymore, but my family does) or things that people talk about in real life was odd, people casually talking about AGI, AI safety, job replacements, or just how people casually use AI for relatively big tasks has been odd.\n\nAI feels like it's \"my\" thing, I have been following it for about 15 years now, so finally talking to other people about topic they found themselves, instead of just me talking about AI has been odd.\n\n[1 upvotes] most ppl are like dayum yeah AI's gonna take over the world... btw did u hear messi retired?\n\n[1 upvotes] It's still nothing yet. Wait a year or two. It's widely predicted to be a major topic - if not the defining topic in case there are any massive incidents by then - in next U.S. elections.\n\n[1 upvotes] Honestly, I'm super interested in the evolution of antiAI sub. You can see changes happening with each milestone reached by AI. I remember when they reposted the classic \"count r in strawberry\" or \"what is x+y\" (screenshots were already old). Now they legitimately are in full denial mode and the smarter - honest - contributors rather discuss unemployment, lack of average human cognitive capacity values, etc.  \nI wonder what will happen in the next year",
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