Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDan Balsam: belief
8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“I see I see absolutely no reason that anyone should be particularly confident on on this topic. Given the potential downside, I think intellectual humility is important.”
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- Dan Balsam
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- belief
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- 8 Aug 2026
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- The Cognitive Revolution
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…Well, I'm glad to have had the chance to experience a little bit of a lunchtime conversation at Goodfire, and I think it's good to honestly, you get serious people more serious people on the record that, like, hey. This is this is something we really should be taking, not for granted by any means, but seriously these days because Yep. I'm I'm definitely persuaded that if we mess it up bad, it could be real, real bad. Yeah. I see I see absolutely no reason that anyone should be particularly confident on on this topic. Given the potential downside, I think intellectual humility is important. Yeah. Absolutely. This has been great. Anything else you wanna mention that I didn't touch on myself or any parting thoughts, words of wisdom you'd leave people with?…
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