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21 published records
“Actually, when we did our episode together, a bunch of people, I don't know if you saw this, independently made these blog posts and Anki cards and shit where they're explaining the concept because we just kind of passed over some things.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I guess, but you also can't invest it in specific things. And, I don't know. I might change my mind in the future and can restart it, and I've been contributing for a few years now.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I will also mention that all I have to do is ask them questions, and I do think it's much harder to learn a field to be a practitioner than just learn enough to ask interesting questions.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“The human brain can store much more, so why does the human brain just not want us to memorize these kinds of things, and is actively pruning, and… yeah, I don't know.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“The humans have in fact done this, and I don't know of a single example of LLMs ever having done it.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think you do that quite proactively in terms of you deliberately introduce people that you think will be interesting to each other and this kind of stuff, so… yeah.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I distinctly remember you had your blog post on the Annus Mirabilis. And Jeff Bezos retweeted it, I think.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I mean, I think the podcast is awesome, and a lot more people should listen to it, and there are a lot more guests I'd be excited for you to interview.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Like, Mr Beast-style distribution, where people, I think rightly, focus on the content, and if that's not up to snuff, I think you won't succeed.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think making sure that, like, there is a great debate of ideas on not, not just AI, but on other fields, and everything is incredibly high leverage in value.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I got close to 1,000 applications across the different rounds of publicizing it that I did. And a lot of, I think, really cool people applied.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Other news; I have a book launching today, it's called The Scaling Era. I hope one of the questions ends up being why you should buy this book.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I don't think about the hour that I'll spend with you. I think about the two weeks, because this is my life, right?”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“This is also why I'm skeptical of big grand schemes like nationalization or some public-private partnership or just generally shaking up the landscape too much, because I do think we're in one of the better..”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Mostly because- it's not even the long-term impact over years, though I think that is part of it and I do regret all the episodes I did without using Speech Marking Cards, because all the insights have just sort of faded away.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think my answer at the moment is that the sort of pre-training objective doesn't necessarily- like it imbues with this nice flexible general knowledge about the world, but doesn't necessarily imbue the skill of making novel connections or research.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I mean, I feel like AI is one of the most multi-disciplinary fields that one can imagine, because there's no field, no domain of human knowledge that is not relevant to understanding what a future society of different kinds of beings will look like.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I don't know if you've seen me do this, but every time I encounter a young person who's like, "What should I do with my life?”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“" I expect that trend line to continue, basically, as you go from this model of, "Well, I'm working with some model that's assisting me on my computer, and it's basically a pairing session," to, "I'm managing a small team," through to, "I'm managing a division or a company".”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I feel like that job's still gonna be around. It's funny, because I studied computer science, and in retrospect- at the time, you could've become a software engineer or something.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“The book reviews is a good suggestion. I actually use, like, Gwern's book reviews as a way to recommend books to people.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast