Chatted with my friend Leopold Aschenbrenner about the trillion dollar cluster, unhobblings + scaling = 2027 AGI, CCP espionage at AI labs, leaving OpenAI and starting an AGI investment firm, dangers of outsourcing clusters to the Middle East, & The Project.
Read the new essay series from Leopold this episode is based on here: [ Ссылка ]
Timestamps
00:00:00 The trillion-dollar cluster and unhobbling
00:21:20 AI 2028: The return of history
00:41:15 Espionage & American AI superiority
01:09:09 Geopolitical implications of AI
01:32:12 State-led vs. private-led AI
02:13:12 Becoming Valedictorian of Columbia at 19
02:31:24 What happened at OpenAI
02:46:00 Intelligence explosion
03:26:47 Alignment
03:42:15 On Germany, and understanding foreign perspectives
03:57:53 Dwarkesh's immigration story and path to the podcast
04:03:16 Random questions
04:08:47 Launching an AGI hedge fund
04:20:03 Lessons from WWII
04:29:57 Coda: Frederick the Great
Links
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