Aravind Srinivas
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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Right.
But I think a lot of things that we are doing today will not be considered needed or valuable.
And maybe a little bit of taking our own lessons from the past.
I don't know if you, when you grew up as a student, did you have to like be good at mental math, like multiplying arbitrary numbers?
Was that considered a sign of smartness or remembering people's phone numbers or something?
But was there a time when people thought somebody was smart based on how good their memory power was?
But would you say that now?
Yeah, I think it's impressive, but it's not necessarily a sign of being intelligent, right?
I think it's just a look.
You have a very fast lookup table in your head.
That's great.
It's very valuable.
But I still think being smart is all about posing the most interesting questions.
Yeah.
Yeah, all those things.
Exactly.
So when you have an amplifier to your intelligence, like an AI, all the time where lookups is essentially something you can delegate,
reasoning for decision making is something you can delegate but posing the right questions to gather the right data and then forming your own judgment based on what it reasons and comes up with and finally having the courage to make the decision that's still you that agency that intrinsic curiosity to ask the right question the scientific intellectual humility to like you know gather new evidence always questioning your beliefs that that is still you
And so I feel like that is essentially what would be considered smart in the ages to come.
If somebody is like, you know, like a proxy scientist or whatever, like no more doesn't have to go to like MIT or Harvard and get a PhD to be a scientist or to be considered a scientist.
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