Tyler Cowen: uncertainty

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…All right. Next question from Virat: “In a future world where Neuralink-type devices can instantly upload data to our mind and impart us with world’s knowledge, what is valuable, the experience of getting to know or the knowing itself, the journey or the destination? Is it even valuable? What’s after ‘we know all’?” They clarify that this is assuming that Neuralink devices are much more advanced than they are now, that it can literally implant the world’s knowledge in your brain. That world seems very distant to me. I don’t have intuitions about that world. A world where, say, people who have problems with paralysis can do very useful things through Neuralink, that’s not distant. The rest, I don’t know. It just may not even be true. I would make the general point, the process is super important, that just something like writing, where LLMs can write well, but that you need to be writing all the time, that should never go away. It’s a simpler example, more tractable. I strongly believe there in the process for humans and not just the outcome. All right. Next question from Naveen Mishra: “Why haven’t more people copied your interviewing style?”…

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