Dwarkesh
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first heard Apr 2025
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I think it's hard to grapple with how different this will be from human companies and institutions.
You're going to have this blobs with millions of entities rapidly coming into and going out of existence who are each thinking at superhuman speeds.
It will be a change in social organization as big as was the transition from hunter-gatherer tribes to a mass of modern joint stock corporations.
The boundary between different AI instances starts to blur.
Mega Steve will constantly be spawning specialized distilled copies and reabsorbing what they've learned on their own.
Models will communicate directly through latent representations, similar to how the hundreds of different layers in a neural network like GPT-4 already interact.
Merging will be a step change in how organizations can accumulate and apply knowledge.
Humanity's great advantage has been social learning, our ability to pass knowledge across generations and build upon it.
But human social learning has a terrible handicap.
Biological brains don't allow information to be copy-pasted.
So you need to spend years, and in many cases decades, teaching people what they need to know in order to do their job.
or consider how clustering talent in cities and top firms produces such outsized benefits, simply because it lowers the friction of knowledge flow between individuals.
Future AI firms will accelerate this cultural evolution.
With millions of AGIs, automated firms get so many more opportunities to produce innovations and improvements, whether from lucky mistakes, deliberate experiments, de novo inventions, or some combination.
Historical data going back thousands of years suggests that population size is the key input for how fast your society comes up with more ideas.
AI firms will have population sizes that are orders of magnitude larger than today's biggest companies.
And each AI will be able to perfectly mind meld with every other.
AI firms will look from the outside like a unified intelligence that can instantly propagate ideas across the organization, preserving their full fidelity and context.
Every bit of tacit knowledge from millions of copies gets perfectly preserved, shared, and given due consideration.
So what becomes expensive in this world?
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