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The speaker characterizes scaling-law experiments as ultimately being motivated by cognitive effort.
Dwarkesh Patel · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“like scaling laws is just you. I mean, like it ultimately knitted out an experiment, but the experiment is motivated by cognitive”
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