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The speaker worries that the argument about compute scarcity may repeat historical mistakes in predicting scarcity.
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“I'm a bit worried that this kind of analysis honestly pattern matches a lot onto the ways that people in the past have been wrong about scarcity.”6:46Report a misattribution
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