Daniel Kokotajlo
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 19 Jun
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At higher scale, it will probably get even more difficult.
Wait a second.
I agree, Robin Hanson in particular has been too pessimistic.
I had this interesting experience yesterday.
We were having lunch with this senior AI researcher, probably makes on the order of like millions a month or something.
And we were asking him, how much are the AIs helping you?
And he said, in domains, which I understand well, and it's closer to autocomplete but more intense,
There it's maybe saving me four to eight hours a week.
But then he says, in domains which I'm less familiar with, if I need to go wrangle up some hardware library or make some modification to the kernel or whatever, where I'm just like, I know less, that saves me on the order of 24 hours a week.
now with like current models.
What I found really surprising is that the help is bigger where it's less like autocomplete and more like a novel contribution.
It's like a more significant productivity improvement there.
Isn't this a good opportunity to discuss a certain question I asked Dario that you responded to?
What are you thinking of?
Well, I asked this question where, as you say, they know all this stuff.
I don't know if you saw this.
I asked this question where I said, look, these models know all this stuff.
And if a human knew every single thing a human has ever written down on the Internet, they'd be able to make all these interesting connections between different ideas and maybe even find medical cures or scientific discoveries as a result.
there was some guy who noticed that magnesium deficiency causes something in the brain that is similar to what happens when you get a migraine.
And so he just said, give you magnesium supplements that cured a lot of migraines.
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