Daniel Kokotajlo

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687 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 19 Jun

Daniel Kokotajlo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It was like 15% by 2027 or something like that.

It is an interesting question of they do have your writing and all other good writing in training distribution.

And weirdly, they seem way better at getting superhuman at coding than they are at programming.

at writing, right?

Which is like the main thing in their distribution.

There was this recent Financial Times article about how we've reached peak cognitive power.

We're talking about declining scores in PISA and SAT and so forth.

On the Internet especially, it does seem like there might have been a golden era before I was that active on the forums or whatever.

Yeah.

Do you have nostalgia for a particular time on the internet when it was just like, this is an intellectual mecca?

Anybody who was sort of counterfactually responsible for you starting to blog or keeping blogging?

I think for most of human history, somebody who is an influential advisor or an intellectual or somebody... Actually, I don't know if this is true.

You would have had to have some sort of public persona.

And a lot of what people read into your work is actually a reflection of your public persona.

Yeah.

Seems like a great note to end on.

Thank you guys so much for doing this.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This was a blast.

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