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The speaker expects superintelligences in the future to be able to buy many factories when they want to produce robots.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“but it's just obvious and overdetermined that in the future when they have superintelligence and they want them,”
“they can start buying up a lot of factories.”Play from 55:15Report a misattribution
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