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The speaker says many people in the early 20th century incorrectly believed genes were made of proteins.
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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“everybody thought genes were made of proteins.”
“Somebody even won a Nobel Prize on that premise.”
“They were all wrong.”Play from 1:28:24Report a misattribution
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