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Humans differ from other animals in their ability to formulate and execute long-term plans; other animals often rely on instinct or evolutionarily familiar environments.

Dwarkesh Patel · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“But I would also say there that if you compare animals to humans,”
“long-term intelligent planning”
“like an animal is not gonna like help you book a flight either an animal or like an animal is not gonna like do remote work for you um or even do the kinds of things i think like what separates humans from other animals is that we can hold long-term we can like make come up with a plan and execute on it whereas other animals i often had to go by instinct or within the kinds of environments that they have evolutionary um uh knowledge of rather than like i'm put in in the middle of the savannah or i'm putting the middle of”
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