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Published · transcript-backedLeopold Aschenbrenner: observation
4 Jun 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
“The only way this is possible is if we lock it down. If we don't lock it down, we are in this fever struggle.”
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- Leopold Aschenbrenner
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- 4 Jun 2024
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…Sure, we’ll leave that aside. That’s a different rabbit hole. The thing I want to ask is... The only way this is possible is if we lock it down. If we don't lock it down, we are in this fever struggle. Greatest peril mankind will have ever seen. During this period, they don’t really understand how this AI governance is going to work, whether they’re going to check, whether we’re going to adjugate the galaxies. The data centers can't be built underground. They have to be above ground. Taiwan is right off the coast of China. The US needs the chips from there. Why isn’t China just going to invade? Worst case scenario for them is the US wins the superintelligence, which we’re on track to do anyway. Wouldn't this instigate them to either invade Taiwan or blow up the data center in Arizona or something like that?…
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