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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: preference
9 Jan 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
“Since I'm an input other than the AI, or I hope, that means I rise in marginal value, but I need to do different things. So, I think of myself over time as less a producer of content and more a connector, people person, developing networks in a way where if there somehow had been no transformers and LLMs, I would have stayed a bit more as the producer of content.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 9 Jan 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…What's the answer for you? I don't think about it very differently. But again, if you buy my view about slow takeoff, why should it be that different? We'll have more degrees of freedom. So, if you have more degrees of freedom, all your choices, decisions, issues, and problems are more complex. You're in more need of some kind of guidance. All inputs other than the AI rise in marginal value. Since I'm an input other than the AI, or I hope, that means I rise in marginal value, but I need to do different things. So, I think of myself over time as less a producer of content and more a connector, people person, developing networks in a way where if there somehow had been no transformers and LLMs, I would have stayed a bit more as the producer of content. When I was preparing to interview you, I asked Claude to take your persona. Compared to other people I tried this with, it actually works really well with you.…
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