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What I got wrong about 2018 was fascinating.
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Hundreds of years ago you had a community of monks who had been stewarding civilization through the dark ages and had been keeping knowledge alive. They had access to privileged information, privileged knowledge, and privileged institutions. Then the printing press came along, and messed everything up for them. I think that the AI research community is going through this period now, where they're figuring out which of them are monks, which of them are peasants, which of them should be doing printing presses, and wh…