David Pearce
speaker
14,403 appearances
52 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Aug
David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's talking about distillation, which has been very controversial, the idea that you can essentially use a model to train another model.
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Uh it's it's how a lot of people think that Chinese models have gotten so good so fast.
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Very hot topic in this space.
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Should distillation be legal?
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Mark Zuckerberg writes, The ability for models to learn from other models is an important principle of how the open source ecosystem works.
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All AI models are derived from human knowledge.
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Some have tried to frame distillation as harmful, but I think it is important to protect the principle that you can learn from anything you can observe.
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This is how the world works, and the US will not be able to lead if we restrict ourselves on this front.
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This is Mark Zuckerberg saying, You have to make it legal for us to do everything that we've been doing with AI
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Yes.
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And throughout the entire AI industry, right?
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Like the the the fundamental goodness of computers and bonkersness of humans is a real thing that is just bubbling up.
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You leave my
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Um okay.
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I I have a bunch more.
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He goes on a whole tangent about RSI, which essentially describes AI that can be a sort of thing.
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Competitive stress injury.
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Exactly.
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It's it's it's when AI can start to train itself, essentially.
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You you you set it loose and it is able to train itself on how to get better.
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