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R&D matters for growth but is relatively less important than some other factors, and no single factor is sufficient by itself to enable the growth being discussed.
Unidentified speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“like they're these bottlenecks so you need to scale everything at once like this is just a general view but i think people like misunderstand us sometimes as saying that uh like r and d is not important like no that's that's not that's not what we what we're saying we're saying it is important it is less important in relative terms than some other things none of which are by themselves sufficient to enable this growth so the question is like how do you do the credit attribution i mean one way in which”Play from 1:32:07Report a misattribution
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