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#028 - Dwarkesh Patel on Standing Out, Curiosity, Talent, & The Future

Audience of One

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The Future of Futurism

I think the big thing is, either through AI or through gene editing, I think we're going to get things that are much smarter than the average human. The cost of launching something in orbit over the last 10, 20 years has declined by an entire order of magnitude so it's 10x cheaper to spend a pound in the space. Other technologies which people have noticed for sure, I'm guessing, you know, things like fusion. You may think any particular fusion effort is not that likely to work, but all of them not working seems unlikely.

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