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Sholto Douglas: belief

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

“I think that's arguably the most important quality in almost anything. It's just pursuing it to the end of the earth.”

— Sholto Douglas

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Sholto Douglas
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belief
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28 Mar 2024
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Dwarkesh Podcast

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…I've definitely heard people in management type positions talk about the lack of such people, where they will check in on somebody a month after they gave them a test, or a week after they gave them a test, and then ask, “how is it going?” And they say, “well, we need to do this thing, which requires lawyers because it requires talking about this regulation.” And then it’s like, “how's that going?” And they’re like, “we need lawyers.” And I'm like, “why didn't you get lawyers?” I think that's arguably the most important quality in almost anything. It's just pursuing it to the end of the earth. Whatever you need to do to make it happen, you'll make it happen. “If you do everything, you'll win.”…

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