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Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation

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Cohen's Will Be Able to Create These Simplification Forums

Cohen: I think there's a lot of reasons to believe that with some help, some bootstrapping from language models, you can get to a point where the process of science that is built on top of them is legible. And you have a causal story of why you should trust it. This is mostly based on trust. None of these steps involve superhuman capabilities. There is no step here that is like unfathomable to be humans. It's not like someone sat down and thought really hard and then spontaneously invented a CPU. Like we're not built by one single guy who cannot explain to anyone where they came from. They have to be built in a process that is expl

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