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Daniel Kokotajlo argues that, given the unusual dynamics of an AI intelligence explosion, a no-change outcome would require many unusual events.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“and the way that the AI intelligence explosion dynamics work are just so weird that in order to have nothing happen, you need to have a lot of crazy things happen.”Play from 29:05Report a misattribution
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