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The speaker argues that learning some skills requires accumulating relevant experience in the brain, rather than relying only on information passed between people.

Dwarkesh Patel · 8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning · 7 Aug 2026

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“At some point, you actually have to accumulate the relevant experience into your brain. I think the same thing will be true for a lot of skills that we want AIs.”

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