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13 Nov 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
“I would say that the characteristic they have is taking non-human intelligence seriously.”
— Gwern
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- Gwern
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- 13 Nov 2024
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…The ones that you did find insightful, the top 20 or so, what did they have in common? I would say that the characteristic they have is taking non-human intelligence seriously. It doesn't have to be artificial intelligence necessarily. It’s taking the idea of non-human intelligence seriously and not imagining your classic sci-fi scenario of humans going out into the galaxy with rayguns—the sort of thing where you have rockets and rayguns but you don't have cell phones. People complain that the Singularity is a sort of boring, overused sci-fi trope. But if you went out and actually grabbed random books of science fiction, you would find that less than 1% contain anything remotely like that, or have any kind of relevance to the current context that we actually face with AI. Do people tend to underestimate or overestimate your intelligence?…
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