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Decisions made in haste may prove most consequential
  • Speed of progress means critical choices get made quickly
  • Example: Choosing between two technical approaches in a 2-minute meeting
  • Impossible to know in advance which decisions will matter most
Dario AmodeiDwarkesh Patel02:16:05

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One of my worries—although it's also an insight into what's happening—is that some very critical decision will be some decision where someone just comes into my office and is like, 'Dario, you have two minutes. Should we do thing A or thing B on this?' Dario Amodei
Someone gives me this random half-page memo and asks, 'Should we do A or B?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I have to eat lunch. Let's do B.' That ends up being the most consequential thing ever. Dario Amodei

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