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The speaker says population remains important today and that progress is, in some sense, constrained by population size.
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“And it's not that like, again, with population,”
“population still matters a ton today.”
“Like in some sense, like progress is bottlenecked on having larger populations and so forth.”Play from 38:30Report a misattribution
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