Dario Amodei: uncertainty

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…Well, I encourage highly encourage people to read the full essay. That should probably be a book or a sequence of essays because it does paint a very specific future. And I could tell the later sections got shorter and shorter because you started to probably realize that this is going to be a very long essay if you keep going. One, I realized it would be very long, and two, I’m very aware of and very much tried to avoid just being, I don’t know what the term for it is, but one of these people who’s overconfident and has an opinion on everything and says a bunch of stuff and isn’t an expert, I very much tried to avoid that. But I have to admit, once I got to biology sections, I wasn’t an expert. And so as much as I expressed uncertainty, probably I said a bunch of things that were embarrassing or wrong. Well, I was excited for the future you painted, and thank you so much for working hard to build that future and thank you for talking to me, Dario.…

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