Robert Wright: belief

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…... can we make the next thing smarter than the last? Yeah, the sense of acceleration is tangible to me. And I think they're feeling it. They're doing it. They know more about it than I do because they're seeing what they're doing inside. I mean, they're already, you know, they're, they're using it to accelerate the, the, you know, the building of the next generation. Um, but it seems to me anyone who's paying attention, and I gra- you know, look, granted, not many people have much incentive to pay attention as I do, but the, you know, um, the singularity is near. I guess I'm not the first person to say it, but it's getting nearer. And, uh, you know, you've seen the meter graphs and everything else. And I gotta say I'm pretty disappointed in periodicals like The New York Times. You know, they didn't even do a full-fledged piece on that Anthropic paper on recursive self-improvement. And, uh, I, I mean, you tell me. Don't, don't you think... Uh, what, what, what's your reading of the state of the media? I mean, I, there, you know, I have this, a, as I said, this Twitter list where I follow all these people, many of whom are, like, these insiders, and so to me it's clear. But I, I don't... And, and, and clearly there's growing awareness, I mean, of, like, but I really do think we need to see mainstream media start to highlight some of these challenges a little more. And look, my, you know, it's c- I've made it clear to you that I'm not wild about Dario's geopolitical vision, but I gotta give Anthropic a lot of credit. There's clearly a lot of people in the organization who take the overall challenge seriously. They've done a lot of, you know, alignment work that's been very illuminating, and this paper they put out I think is, is a great benefit, so. Yeah. I like a, a lot-…

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