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Recommendations that were completely unrealistic and had effectively no chance of being implemented would make the exercise much less useful.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“are like yeah colored by recommendations and your recommendations are inherently trying to be at least vaguely realistic like if if we made recommendations that were like completely unrealistic and had like no bearing on reality but we nevertheless like stood by and we're like yes we should do this but we know it'll like absolutely zero percent ever happen then that would have been a much less useful exercise than i think the one we did where the one we did was yeah we were mostly trying to make recommendations we you know we made some recommendations that we think are you”Play from 10:48Report a misattribution
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