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An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
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12:27
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
An audio version of the original blog post
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14:00
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
Continual learning is a huge bottleneck
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Give AIs a stake in the future
Part 1 of Classical Liberal AGI
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Questions about the Future of AI
Considerations about economics, history, training, deployment, investment, and more
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What fully automated firms will look like
Everyone is sleeping on the *collective* advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ - they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled…
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Notes on China
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Dwarkesh Podcast Progress Update
I was 2 months away from quitting the podcast for 2 years.
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Will scaling work?
Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world modelers, and other considerations
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Contra Marc Andreessen on AI
"The claim that you will completely control any system you build is obviously false, and a hacker like Marc should know that"
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Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
"Explore a single individual deeply enough and truths about all individuals emerge." - Robert Caro
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The mystery of the miracle year
An interesting pattern recurs across the career of great scientists: an annus mirabilis (miracle year) in which they make multiple, seemingly…
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