There'd also be fewer people falling for apocalyptic Rationalist delusions

Assuming you consider it a "delusion" to have a p(doom) of more than 5% or so, that's not uncommon among frontier lab employees who have a pretty good idea of how LLMs work.

Indeed, I don't see how knowing the details of how LLMs work (which I know btw) would change anything about how intelligent they are. I only need to know that it's a computer program that writes stories, solves math problems and seduces people.