Sholto Douglas

Like, I think it's, like, it is best understood as...

and with incredibly difficult prioritization problems.

Coding is immensely valuable right now and somewhat more tractable.

So it actually makes sense to devote more of your effort to coding initially and get closer to solving that because there's a sort of super exponential value as you get closer to what's solving a domain.

than to allocate the marginal person towards computer use.

And so everyone is making these difficult trade-off calls over what do they care about.

Also, there's another aspect, which is that, funnily enough, the researchers at the labs love working on the bars of intelligence that they themselves resonate with.

So this is why math and competitive programming fell first, is because to everyone at the labs, this is their bar of intelligence.

This is when they think, fuck, what's a really smart

Like, what is smart?

It's like, oh, if it can beat me at Amy, then that's smart.

Not if it can do an Excel model better.

That's like, well, who cares if it can do an Excel model better than me?

But if it can beat me at Amy, then I respect it.

And so we've reached the point where people respect it,

But people haven't invested as much effort.

Yeah.

Filling out all the countries where you've been for a visa, I hate that.

I keep thinking I'm close enough to personal admin escape velocity that finally in like a year, the models will be doing my visas and stuff for me.

But we'll get there.