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20 Jul 2025 Lenny's Podcast Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann
“My brother works in the semiconductor industry and he was telling me that you can't actually shrink the size of the transistors anymore because the way semiconductors work is you dope silicon with other elements and the doping process would result in either zero or one atom of the doped elements inside a single fin because they're so, so, so tiny.”
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- Benjamin Mann
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- 20 Jul 2025
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…I forget where I heard this, but it's amazing that so many innovations came together at the same time to allow for this sort of thing and continue to progress where one thing isn't just slowing everything down like we're out of some rare earth mineral or we just can't optimize reinforcement learning more. It's amazing that we continue to find improvements and there isn't one thing that's just slowing everything down. Yeah, I think it really is just a combination of everything probably will hit a wall at some point. I guess in semiconductors. My brother works in the semiconductor industry and he was telling me that you can't actually shrink the size of the transistors anymore because the way semiconductors work is you dope silicon with other elements and the doping process would result in either zero or one atom of the doped elements inside a single fin because they're so, so, so tiny. Oh my God.…
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