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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is the CEO a Good Leader?

I know much less about any given topic than the person who specializes in the topic. And I think what I try to do is I try to know enough about the topic that I can manage them effectively. You don't need to know much about it to judge it effectively, but at any company, you may need a fair amount of knowledge on some other topics as well. If your company is making computers or phones and design is very important, you pro the CEO would be really bad if the CEO just had like no opinions on design. It's a central thing to the company. It matters to the company and they should know some things about it.

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