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Building an iPhone in the year 1000 would likely require reproducing every or most intermediate technologies, though how to do so is unclear.

Dwarkesh Patel · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“one question that daniel posed to me is like because i made this perspective about everything being interconnected when you were talking about like another example people often bring up is what would it take to build the iphone in the year 1000 and”
“it's like unclear how you could actually do that without just like replicating every like intermediate technology or most intermediate technologies um”
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