Dwarkesh

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1,722 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 25 Nov

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Dwarkesh Podcast · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025 podcast

Kind of looks like you asked ChatGPT, summarize the past five years of AI progress, and you got something with like a couple of hallucinations, but basically well-intentioned and correct.

So when Daniel said he was doing this sequel, I was very excited.

really wanted to see where it was going.

It goes to some pretty crazy places, and I'm excited to talk about it more today.

I think read the document and decide which of us is right.

I was asked to help with the writing, and I was already somewhat familiar with the people on the project, and many of them were kind of my heroes.

So Daniel I knew both because I'd written a blog post about his opinions before.

I knew about his What 2026 Looks Like, which was amazing.

And also he had pretty recently made the national news for –

having, when he quit OpenAI, they told him he had to sign a non-disparagement agreement or they would claw back his stock options.

And he refused, which they weren't prepared for.

It started a major news story, a scandal that ended up with OpenAI agreeing that they were no longer going to subject employees to that restriction.

I mean, people talk a lot about how it's hard to trust anyone in AI because they all have so much money invested in the hype and getting their stock options better.

And Datila had, like, just...

attempted to sacrifice millions of dollars in order to say what he believed, which to me was this incredibly strong sign of honesty and competence.

And I was like, how can I say no to this person?

Everyone else on the team also extremely impressive.

Eli Lifland, who's a member of Samots Veti, the world's top forecasting team.

He has won like the top forecasting competition.

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