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Published · transcript-backedNathan Lambert: belief
3 Feb 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
“There are other international things that are worrying, but there’s just fundamental human goodness and trying to amplify that. I think we’re on a tenuous time.”
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- Nathan Lambert
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- 3 Feb 2025
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Oh, yeah. And for that reason, there’s physical constraints to things like AGI, like recursive improvement to kill us all type stuff. For the physical reasons and for how humans have figured things out before, I’m not too worried about AI takeover. There are other international things that are worrying, but there’s just fundamental human goodness and trying to amplify that. I think we’re on a tenuous time. And I mean if you look at humanity as a whole, there’s been times where things go backwards, there’s times when things don’t happen at all, and we’re on what should be very positive trajectory right now. Yeah, there seems to be progress, but just like with power, there’s like spikes of human suffering and we want to try to minimize the amount of spikes.…
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