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The speaker says several people send him highly polished, multi-paragraph responses to ACX posts that could stand as blog posts.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“multiplication problem where 20 percent of people are good at one thing 20 percent of people are good at another thing and you need five things there aren't that many plus something like courage where people who are would be good at writing blogs don't want to do it i actually know several people who i think would be great bloggers in the sense that sometimes they send me like multi-paragraph emails of response to an acx post and i'm like wow this is just”
“an extremely well-written thing that could have been another blog post.”Play from 2:42:41Report a misattribution
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