2024-11-14
1 小时 36 分钟Today I'm interviewing Guern Brandwin.
Guern is an anonymous internet researcher and writer.
He's deeply influenced the people who are building AGI.
He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming.
If you've read his blog, you know he's one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive.
We recorded this conversation in person.
In order to protect Guern's anonymity, we created this avatar.
This isn't his voice.
This isn't his face.
But these are his words.
Guern What is the most underrated benefit of anonymity?
I think the most underrated benefit of anonymity is that people don't project onto you as much.
They kind of can't like slot you into any particular niche or identity and like end up writing you off in advance.
You know, everyone has to read you at least a little bit to even begin to dismiss you.
It's great that people can't retaliate against you and I've derived a lot of benefit from people not being able to like mail heroin to my home and call the police to swap me,
but I always feel that the biggest benefit is just that you get a hearing at all basically.
You don't get immediately written off by the context.
Do you expect companies to get automated top down starting with the CEO or from the bottom up starting with the workers?
All the pressures, I think, are to go bottom up.
And from existing things,