Dwarkesh
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 25 Nov
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But we think both because the AI is going to be chomping at the bit to do this and going to be asking people to give it this permission, and because the government is going to be concerned about competitors, maybe these geniuses leave their data center sooner rather than later.
I'm not sure.
So the Europeans...
failed at this task of if you put a single European in Australia, do not starve.
They succeeded at the task of creating an industrial civilization.
And yes, part of that task of creating an industrial civilization was about collecting all of these cultural evolution pieces and building on them one after another.
I think one thing that you didn't mention in there was the data efficiency.
Right now, AI is much less data efficient than humans.
I think of superintelligence, I mean, there are different ways you could achieve it, but I would think of superintelligence as partly like when they become so much more data efficient than humans that they are able to build on...
cultural evolution more quickly.
And I mean, partly they do this just because they have the higher serial speed.
Partly they do it because they're in this hive mind of hundreds of thousands of copies.
But yeah, I think if you have this data efficiency such that, like, you can learn things more quickly from fewer examples, and like this good research taste where you can decide what things to look at to get these examples, then you are still going to start off much worse than
an Australian aborigine who has the advantage of, let's say, 50,000 years of doing these experiments and collecting these examples, but you can catch up quickly.
You can distribute the task of catching up over all of these different copies.
You can learn quickly from each mistake, and you can build on those mistakes as quickly as anything else.
Yeah, so I mean, I think a limit to the fakeness is that there is different intelligence among humans.
It does seem that intelligent humans can do things that unintelligent humans can't.
So I think it's worth then addressing this from the question of like, what is the difference between...
I don't know, becoming a Harvard professor, which is something that intelligent humans seem to be better at than unintelligent humans versus... You don't want to open that can of worms.
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