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The speaker says people tend to take scenarios seriously, and vivid details can overwhelm their ability to assess them.
Tim Scarfe · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“I think that the human mind sucks in light of scenarios,”
“that it takes them very seriously.”
“The vivid details,”
“overwhelm people's ability to see things.”Play from 1:54:28Report a misattribution
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