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Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI

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Do You Think We Can Learn More Effectively From Language Models?

I was looking for whether you think that we could learn more efficiently from language models rather than textbooks. I feel that, to me this just kind of feels like the wrong question. If someone competent writes a good textbook, that's like a great thing to read and work through. And sometimes the advice is, you shouldn't read a book, you should go write code or go out in the world and try this thing. Use them as an assistant when doing something where you get feedback and whether you've been taught something that's BS or not seems great.

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