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The speaker mentions the speculative possibility that vacuum decay could be created and destroy the universe.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“monitor um you can have millions of beings that are being tortured and you it doesn't even have to be some huge data center future distilled models could just you know could like literally be your backyard um i don't know and then there's more speculative worries about either physicist on who was talking about the possibility of creating vacuum decay where you literally just destroy the universe and he's like”Play from 2:25:22Report a misattribution
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