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Tyler Cowen

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Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And that will have a huge impact.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And like, if that's all it is, I'm thrilled.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And I think it will be more than that.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I don't think about it very differently, but again, if you buy my view about slow takeoff, why should it be that different?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Well, have more degrees of freedom.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

So if you have more degrees of freedom, all your choices, decisions, issues, problems are more complex, so you're in more need of some kind of guidance.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

So all inputs other than the AI, like rise in marginal value, and since I'm an input other than the AI, or I hope that means I rise in marginal value, but I need to do different things.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

So I think of myself over time as less a producer of content and more like a connector, people person developing networks in a way where if there somehow had been no like transformers and LLMs, I would have stayed a bit more as a producer of content.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Because I've written a lot on the internet.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I do think about this, and the last book I wrote, it's called Goat, who's the greatest economist of all time.

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Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I'm happy if humans read it, but mostly I wrote it for the AIs.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I wanted them to know I appreciate them.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And my next book, I'm writing even more for the AIs.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Again, human readers are welcome.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

It will be free, but sort of, oh, who reviews it?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Like, oh, is TLS going to pick it up?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Like, it doesn't matter anymore.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Like, the AIs will trawl it and know I've done this, and that will shape how they see me, and I hope a very salient and important way.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And as far as I can tell, no one else is doing this.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

No one is, like, writing or recording for the AIs very much.