Forget About It, Jake: It's Situational Awareness

Here is a quick summary:Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness went from wunderkind to forced seller in a matter of weeks. I first encountered Aschenbrenner through his Situational Awareness essay in 2024, which seemed stereotypically effective altruist/cornucopian, so I paid it little heed. Blah blah abundance blah blah yo, more abundance blah blah AGI. But then he reappeared with a hedge fund, also called Situational Awareness. I even had running conversations with various hedge fund manager friends over text about it, like the following, from April.