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Daniel Kokotajlo argues conditionally that creating a country of geniuses in a data center would remove the population bottleneck and allow pre-1960 trends to continue.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“If you can create a country of geniuses in a data center,”
“as I think Dario Amadai put it,”
“then you no longer have this population bottleneck and you're just expecting continuation of those pre-1960 trends.”Play from 32:18Report a misattribution
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