2025-04-18
3 小时 8 分钟Today I'm chatting with Tame Bessaroglu and Ege Erdo.
They were previously running Epoch AI and are now launching Mechanize,
which is a company dedicated to automating all work.
One of the interesting points who made recently Tame is that the whole idea of the intelligence explosion is mistaken or misleading.
Why don't you explain what we were talking about there?
Yeah, I think it's not a very useful concept.
It's kind of like calling the Industrial Revolution a horsepower explosion.
Like, sure, during the Industrial Revolution,
we saw this drastic acceleration in raw physical power,
but there are many other things that were maybe equally important in explaining the acceleration of growth and technological change that we saw during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the way to characterize the...
broader set of things that the horsepower perspective would miss about the industrial revolution.
So I think in the case of the industrial revolution,
it was a bunch of these complementary changes to many different sectors in the economy.
So you had agriculture, you had transportation, you had law and finance,
you had urbanization and moving from rural areas into cities.
There were just many different innovations that kind of happened simultaneously that gave rise to this change in the way of economically organizing our society.
It wasn't just that we had a more horsepower.
I mean that was part of it,
but that's not the kind of central thing to focus on when thinking about the industrial revolution.