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Reading the scenario made the speaker's ideas about an intelligence explosion much more concrete.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“Yeah, it wasn't even just changing my mind. Getting to read the scenario for the first time, it obviously wasn't written up at this point. It was a giant, giant spreadsheet.”
“I've been thinking about this for like a decade, decade and a half now,”
“and it just made it so much more concrete to have a specific story like,”Play from 6:19Report a misattribution
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