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If learning by doing is a bottleneck, a mind that needs less hands-on experience to achieve the same learning would have a major advantage.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“I mean and so like a lot of these like high level points that we've learned from history they would just be able to figure out from first principles and then secondly they would just be better at learning by doing than us and this is a really important thing like if you think you're bottlenecked on learning by doing well then if you have a mind that needs less learning”
“less doing to achieve the same amount of learning that's a really big deal”Play from 1:08:32Report a misattribution
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