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The speaker hypothesizes that a sufficiently general RLVR-trained AI could outperform Lyndon Johnson’s advice on winning a Texas Senate seat in 1948 and could build SpaceX if given $100 million in 2002.
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“If you drop this endlessly RLV yard AI into Texas politics in 1948,”
“it could give you better advice than LBJ about winning the Senate seat.”
“And if you gave it $100 million in 2002 and let it cook,”
“it would build SpaceX for you.”Play from 6:26Report a misattribution
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