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An uncertain examination of whether taste will be an advantage for humans after AGI

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder “Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.” - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Update: this piece, which was speculative and uncertain when I wrote it, now has empirical support. See METR’s “Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks” and Jason Hausenloy’s analysis of its labor-market implications. About a year ago, Dwarkesh asked Dario Amodei a question about LLMs and novel discovery. Marginal Revolution recently noted that it still doesn’t have a compelling answer: “...what do you…

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