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The speaker believes that no sequence of written notes passed between novice students would enable the next student to play the saxophone perfectly on the first attempt.

Dwarkesh Patel · 8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning · 7 Aug 2026

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“I don't think there's any sequence of text they could write to each other that would allow the subsequent student to just nail the saxophone from the first try.”

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