
Highlights: #150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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Explosive Growth Is Plausible Despite Sounding Crazy
I think it's mostly possible to answer those objections. If you have a billion AIs trying to push forward R&D and they're bottlenecked on these needing to do these experiments, then they'll be putting in a huge amount of effort to make these experiments happen as efficiently as possible. So where I was today, we might be using the lab for 50% of the time we could be using it. And we might be just doing a whole bunch of experiments and then analyzing it afterwards after each one. But also, not kind of trying to cram as much into each experiment as as as as humanly possible. It isn't surprising that at some point we develop machines that can do
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