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In the speaker's scenario, AI reaches a successful design through simulation and testing, as humans do, but much faster.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“And then, yeah, after all of this simulation and all of this testing,”
“then they eventually got it right for the same reasons humans do.”
“things do,”
“but much, much faster.”
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