notice how tpot ideas keep showing up in mainstream culture without the label industry's whole aesthetic is status optimization and competence worship. ai acceleration went from fringe to obvious in 18 months. you're seeing longtermism and pronatalism discourse in regular publications now. not saying it's good or bad, just interesting how fast certain framings moved from extremely online rationalist twitter to normal thing people discuss. the overton window didn't shift so much as certain ideas just escaped and seem to continue to