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Nathan Lambert: belief

3 Feb 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

“I think humans will definitely be around in a 1000 years, I think. There’s ways that very bad things could happen.”

— Nathan Lambert

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Speaker
Nathan Lambert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
3 Feb 2025
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Back to our robotics conversation, yeah, when you have to interact in the actual physical world, that’s hard. What gives you hope about the future of human civilization looking into the next 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years, how long do you think we’ll make it? You think we’ve got 1000 years? I think humans will definitely be around in a 1000 years, I think. There’s ways that very bad things could happen. There’ll be way fewer humans, but humans are very good at surviving. There’s been a lot of things that that is true. I don’t think necessarily we’re good at long-term credit assignment of risk, but when the risk becomes immediate, we tend to figure things out. Oh, yeah.…

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