Emilia Javorsky
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 20 Mar
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On a deep human level, that's not a promise that you throw around lightly or flippantly, given how deep of a problem this is and how deeply this affects everyone's lives.
So that was also a motivation to really break this down.
And something I noted in accompanying these promises was being quite light on specifics of actually how the technology will solve this.
And I don't know if you've seen many years ago, the South Park episode of the underpants gnomes.
And this is kind of, okay, this is how I kind of see the super intelligence cancer curing promises.
And that is a sketch where they're going to learn about corporate power.
development and corporate takeovers.
And they encounter these underpants gnomes and they have three phases to their development process, which is phase one is to collect underpants.
Phase two, nobody knows in the whole group.
Phase three is profit, right?
And that's kind of how I see the super intelligence argument.
It's like phase one, develop super intelligence.
Phase two,
Shrug, nobody knows something's going to happen.
Phase three, cure cancer, solve climate change, universal education.
And so a big part of this is actually breaking down what would phase two actually look like if we were serious about that?
How do we bridge this promise with reality?
Yes.
So there's many reasons I don't believe intelligence is the key bottleneck to curing cancer.
But I would start with the fact that
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