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Konstantin Kisin

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

Another is let's replace a dentist.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

Why do I need to go and stand in line for three hours to basically be told, you're fine, go home, right?

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

If I have basically the doctor on my phone and I can talk to it and I explain my specific situations and I can talk back to me and we can have a conversation, I've just like saved myself a bunch of time, saved myself a bunch of money.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

Society is better off as a result.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

I think at some point it will.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

I'm not... Sometimes people have this idea that you get AGI

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

And tomorrow you cure cancer.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

I do think, by the way, so in Silicon Valley, people are also working on all these different ideas to stop aging, to reverse aging, to cure diseases.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

And I think there's a huge... If you just look at the science, there's huge reasons to be optimistic.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

And it's also the case that AI will be pretty good at science.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

It just knows a ton of stuff.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

It's really smart.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

That's what's required for science.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

And...

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

there's a lot of things that i think we get used to that we don't just don't realize how bad it is as a society that this happens if you're just living in europe in the 14th century and half your friends are dying because of the black death um

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

it would just seem normal to you.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

You wouldn't think this is a problem that has to be solved, that life expectancy is 18 years old, and if you go travel somewhere, the bandits are gonna kill you.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

This is just what life is, and 99% of people are peasants doing backbreaking work.

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

In a similar way, I think one of the reasons people have been so bad at articulating the benefits of AI

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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel

is because we're in a similar position to people before the Industrial Revolution, thinking about, OK, what is the upside of the Industrial Revolution?