Daniel Kokotajlo

Jane Street made a puzzle for listeners of this episode, and I thought that I'd take a crack at it first.

And so I'm joined by my friend Adam Kennedy at Jane Street, and he's going to mentor me as I try to take a stab at this.

Let's go.

I appreciate your confidence in me, but there's a reason I became a podcaster.

Today I went on a hike and found a pile of tensors hiding underneath a Neolithic burial mound.

Maybe start by looking at the last two layers.

An ancient civilization's secret code.

Okay, so it looks like I can just type in some words here, and it always gives me zero.

Nice.

All right.

We're in.

So I didn't make that much progress at this, but it's clear that there's some deep structure to this puzzle that would actually be really fun to try to unravel.

If you want to take a crack at it, go to janestreet.com slash Dwarkesh.

And if you enjoy puzzles like this, they're always recruiting.

Yep.

Thanks, Adam.

Yeah, thanks, Dwarkesh.

Take care.

The other notable thing about your model is, so you've got this superhuman thing at the end of it, and then it seems to just go through the tech tree of mirror life and nanobots and whatever crazy stuff.

And maybe that part I'm also really skeptical of.