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The speaker hopes children can use common sense and basic values to develop autonomously without acquiring extreme or misanthropic beliefs.
Dwarkesh Patel · 8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning · 7 Aug 2026
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“But you hope that you've given them enough common sense and basic values that they improve as people in a self-directed way without ending up with some super weird beliefs or some misanthropic ideas.”Play from 2:52Report a misattribution
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