Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: belief
5 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
“The related thing, in the same way that people always want more energy if it’s cheaper, I think people will always want more compute if it’s cheaper.”
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- 5 Nov 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you ever worry there’s some scenario where, ultimately, superintelligence doesn’t need that much compute, and in some funny way, by investing in compute, you’re betting against progress over a 30-year time horizon? The related thing, in the same way that people always want more energy if it’s cheaper, I think people will always want more compute if it’s cheaper. Even if you can make incredibly smart models with much less compute, which I’m sure you can, the desire to consume in all sorts of new ways and do more stuff with more abundant intelligence, I’ll take that bet every day. The related thing I worry about is that there is a huge phase shift on how we do compute, and we’re all chasing a dead-end paradigm. That would be bad. What would that look like?…
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