Its not denial that is the problem. It's apathy. The vast majority simply don't care. They can tell you everything there is to know about Kim Kardashian though.

I can deal with apathy, that’s the norm. What bothers me are all the people who think they can suppress AI by talking it down. That’s what’s counterproductive, just pretend the problem doesn’t exist. Tell other people it doesn’t exist either. I get it, it’s threatening socially, economically, maybe existentially. It’s also not going away.

It’s not apathy. It’s the fact that almost nobody can really understand what these results mean.

I’m not a mathematician so I have zero clue what “ New upper bounds on sphere-packing density down to the Cohn–Elkies thresholds” means.