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Adam Marblestone: evaluation

30 Dec 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

“, and each student pursuing a totally different direction or thesis that you see in universities is not also really key. But I think some amount of scalable infrastructure is missing in essentially every area of science, even math, which is crazy.”

— Adam Marblestone

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Adam Marblestone
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30 Dec 2025
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Dwarkesh Podcast

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…I guess you just need scale in every single domain of science these days. Yeah, I think you need scale in many of the domains of science. That does not mean that the low-scale work is not important. It does not mean that creativity, serendipity, etc. , and each student pursuing a totally different direction or thesis that you see in universities is not also really key. But I think some amount of scalable infrastructure is missing in essentially every area of science, even math, which is crazy. Because mathematicians I thought just needed whiteboards, but they actually need Lean. They actually need verifiable programming languages and stuff. I didn’t know that. Cool. Adam, this is super fun. Thanks for coming on.…

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