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With abundant compute and intelligence, AIs could investigate biomolecules more effectively than relying on US government funding choices and fallible human researchers.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“But that's something you can do better if you have all of this compute,”
“if you have all of this intelligence,”
“rather than just kind of waiting to see what things the US government might fund.”
“and normal fallible human researchers to do.”1:12:34Report a misattribution
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