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25 Mar 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
“I will also mention that all I have to do is ask them questions, and I do think it's much harder to learn a field to be a practitioner than just learn enough to ask interesting questions.”
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- 25 Mar 2025
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…No, that's interesting. How do you go about learning new things or preparing for an episode? You mentioned the one to two-week period where you're deep diving on the person. What does that actually look like? It's very much the obvious thing: you read their books, you read the papers. If they have colleagues, you try to talk to them to better understand the field. I will also mention that all I have to do is ask them questions, and I do think it's much harder to learn a field to be a practitioner than just learn enough to ask interesting questions. But for that it's very much the obvious thing you'd expect. “Based Carl Sagan” asks, "What are your long-term goals and ambitions?"…
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