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Interview: Brad DeLong, author of Slouching Towards Utopia

Ordinary Astronauts

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OpenAI

There's not like a huge number of phone companies. And so once you get a job... Yeah, but there are lots of companies with switchboards. Even someone who doesn't really know much about the details of an organization will have a much greater sense of who might be able to solve your problem after listening to you for a minute than a phone tree does. It seems like the speed at which these things happen could be faster now with the internet software. Does it replace or does it augment? I mean, that's always the question. We don't know. What is pretty clear is that corporations, big corporations, industrial research departments are going to try to build technology that concentrates knowledge

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