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SPEAKER_00 says language changed substantially and attributes this change to literacy and language codification.

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

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“right i mean i think of one of the there's two key arguments that i've heard one is that we will soon reach something called technological maturity um and once you one of the key ways in which society has been changing recently is that it's not like maybe actually such culture would have changed even more actually no no i think this argument is wrong um that you're making because we do know that language actually changed a lot more like we can read everything you”
“everything that was written after like 1800s when literacy became more common but it's actually even just go back a couple hundred years after that and we're reading old english and it's hard to understand and that is a result of literacy and the codification of language um”
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