Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: belief
5 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
“You’re the economist, not me, but I think there is some price point at a given level of safety where the demand for this will be overwhelming.”
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- 5 Nov 2025
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…No, you didn’t, but other people will. That people just won’t want it, getting back to the irrationality point in the insurance? You’re the economist, not me, but I think there is some price point at a given level of safety where the demand for this will be overwhelming. If this is the same price as natural gas, maybe it’s unfortunately hard. If it’s one-tenth the price, I think we could agree it would happen very fast. I don’t know what the cut point is between. Do you ever worry there’s some scenario where, ultimately, superintelligence doesn’t need that much compute, and in some funny way, by investing in compute, you’re betting against progress over a 30-year time horizon?…
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