Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedNat Friedman: uncertainty
22 Mar 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI
“I don't know whether that's a consideration or how big of an effect that is, but it's the kind of thing that would make sense to value if you think there are valuable secrets that have not yet proliferated.”
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- 22 Mar 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…It will be now. Igor's a really, really great guy and brilliant but he also happens to have trained state-of-the-art models at DeepMind and OpenAI. I don't know whether that's a consideration or how big of an effect that is, but it's the kind of thing that would make sense to value if you think there are valuable secrets that have not yet proliferated. So I think they're going to try to slow it down, publishing has certainly slowed down dramatically already. But I think there's just a long way to go before you're anywhere in hedge fund or Manhattan Project territory, and probably secrets will still have a relatively short half-life. As somebody who has been involved in open-source your entire life, are you happy that this is the way that AI has turned out, or do you think that this is less than optimal?…
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