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If GPUs were necessary to create a virtual cell, curing cancer in the 1960s would have required upgrading the entire economy.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“and it just seems like you just need this broad scale the entire economy needs to be upgraded for you to cure cancer in the 60s all right um uh just because you need the gps to do the virtual cell assuming that's the bottom”Play from 57:58Report a misattribution
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