Dwarkesh
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1,722 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 25 Nov
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So, like, it...
It's kind of about figuring out versus checking.
If I tell you those, you're like, this seems plausible.
And of course, in etymology, there are also a lot of false friends where they seem plausible but aren't connected.
But you really do have to have somebody shove it in your face before you start thinking about it and make all of those connections.
Yeah, so to me, it doesn't seem like he is just kind of sitting there being logically omniscient and getting the answer.
It seems like he's a genius.
He's thought about this for years.
Probably at some point, he heard a couple of Indian words and a couple of European words at the same time, and they kind of connected and the light bulb came on.
So this isn't about...
having all the information in your memory, so much as the normal process of discovery, which is kind of mysterious, but seems to come from just kind of having good heuristics and throwing them at things until you kind of get a lucky strike.
My guess is if we had really good AI agents and we...
applied them to this task it would look something like a scaffold where it's like think of every combination of words that you know of compare them if they sound very similar write it on this scratch pad here if there's a combination if a lot of words of the same type show up on this scratch pad that's pretty strange do some kind of thinking around it
And I just don't think we've even tried that.
And I think right now if we tried it, we would run into the combinatorial explosion.
We would need better heuristics.
Humans have such good heuristics that probably most of the things that show up even in our conscious mind rather than happening on the level of some kind of unconscious processing are at least the kind of things that could be true.
Like I think you could think of this as like a chess engine.
You have...
some unbelievable number of possible next moves, you have some heuristics for picking out which of those are going to be the right ones, and then gradually you kind of have the chess engine think about it, go through it, come up with a better or worse move, then at some point you potentially become better than humans.
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