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13 Nov 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
“I could have easily cut it down to 20 novels or short stories which actually were good enough and insightful enough to actually change my view.”
— Gwern
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- Gwern
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- 13 Nov 2024
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…But it sounds like your own ideas have benefited a lot from the sci-fi that you read. Yeah, but it’s extremely little sci-fi. Easily 99% of the sci-fi I read was completely useless to me. I could have easily cut it down to 20 novels or short stories which actually were good enough and insightful enough to actually change my view. One volume of Blindsight by Peter Watts is worth all hundred Xanth novels, or all 500 Expanded Universe novels of Star Wars. The ones that you did find insightful, the top 20 or so, what did they have in common?…
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