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Simulating the entire world is much more difficult than emulating the game of Go.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“The big difference, of course, is that it will be much harder to build a simulation of the whole world than it is to emulate the game of Go.”Play from 16:34Report a misattribution
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