Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedNathan Labenz: belief
23 Jun 2026 The Cognitive Revolution The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
“I think the Kurzweil graphs and just kind of, you know, in the presence of web scale compute and web scale data, somebody's gonna figure out some algorithm to make it work.”
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- Nathan Labenz
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- 23 Jun 2026
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- The Cognitive Revolution
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…Yeah ... attraction to that is just so strong. And I, I do think on probably some timescale that's right. I mean, this kinda goes back to the original, you know, directedness of evolution. Yeah, like, is there gonna, is there some, you know, barring some sort of civilization disrupting event that, you know, knocks us back to the Stone Age or whatever, or, you know, gets rid of us entirely. I do think there probably is some way in which there's a cer- certainly I believe there's an inevitableness to AI. I think the Kurzweil graphs and just kind of, you know, in the presence of web scale compute and web scale data, somebody's gonna figure out some algorithm to make it work. I do think that's right. But then also, like- Mm-hmm…
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