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Sholto Douglas: belief

28 Mar 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

“I think that is true to many extents. I'm sure you probably benefited a lot from the key researchers mentoring you deeply.”

— Sholto Douglas

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Sholto Douglas
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
28 Mar 2024
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…What was notable is that usually this kind of stuff is farmed out to recruiters or something. Whereas James is somebody whose time is worth like hundreds of millions of dollars.You know what I mean? So this thing is very bottlenecked on that kind of person taking the time, in an almost aristocratic tutoring sense, and finding someone and then getting them up to speed. It seems if it works this well, it should be done at scale. Like it should be the responsibility of key people to onboard. I think that is true to many extents. I'm sure you probably benefited a lot from the key researchers mentoring you deeply. And actively looking on open source repositories or on forums for potential people like this.…

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