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Fantastic notes. One possibility to resolve the Dwarkesh Dilemma on how come vast knowledge does not equal vast reasoning: Perhaps it is a trade off. Perhaps advance reasoning requires a certain kind of ignorance, so we forget what we learn in order to have novel ideas. Maybe our brains don't store all knoweldge we get so that it can perform novel thoughts. It could be a trade off in biological hardware, but I personally see no reason for why this tradeoff would exist in neural networks run on GPU’s? Excellent list of questions. One underrated fact is that we know how to deal with the mistakes humans make, our entire society is built around it. But we don't know how to deal with the mistakes LLMs make, and will need to build structures around it for it to "take over". To me that's an incredibly important part of the conversation, and a lot of unknown unknowns that you ask about lie at the other side of it. Re: the 'idiot savants' question, I would say everyone is using and posttraining

Comments - Questions about the Future of AI Dwarkesh Podcast Subscribe Sign in Blog Questions about the Future of AI Dwarkesh Patel Apr 21, 2025 357 54 48 Considerations about economics, history, training, deployment, investment, and more Read → 54 Comments Top first Kevin Kelly Apr 21, 2025 Liked by Dwarkesh Patel Fantastic notes. One possibility to resolve the Dwarkesh Dilemma on how come vast knowledge does not equal vast reasoning: Perhaps it is a trade off. Perhaps advance reasoning requires a certain kind of ignorance, so we forget what we learn in order to have novel ideas. Maybe our br

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