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The speaker characterizes AI training as resembling a million years of military-orphanage training, rather than child-rearing aimed at producing prosocial, generally reasonable people.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“um you know it's like i think sometimes people are like oh we should raise ai so we raise children to be you know pro-social and like generally reasonable people and stuff it's more like we're raising these ai's for through like a million years of like military orphanage training or something”Play from 1:07:30Report a misattribution
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