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The speaker says it is difficult to reason about superhuman intelligences and therefore uses human population sizes as a comparison framework.
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“So, I mean, I think it's really hard to reason about what smarter than human intelligences will be like. So let's just think in terms of human population sizes.”33:29Report a misattribution
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