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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century
Dwarkesh Podcast
The Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment
I'm glad you brought up the Industrial Revolution because I feel like there's two implicit claims within the most important century thesis that don't seem perfectly compatible. It's a pretty good analogy for thinking, gosh, if you had seen the Industrial Revolution coming in advance and this is when economic growth really reached a new level back in the 1700s and 1800s, what could you have done? And I think part of the answer is it's not that clear. In many ways, it looks like what the Enlightenment thinkers were up to had the same kind of esoteric, strange, overly cerebral feel at the time and ended up mattering a lot.
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