Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

Dwarkesh Podcast · Dec 23, 2025 · 12:28

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Timestamps

00:00:00 What are we scaling?

00:03:11 The value of human labor

00:05:04 Economic diffusion lag is cope00:06:34 Goal-post shifting is justified

00:08:23 RL scaling

00:09:18 Broadly deployed intelligence explosion

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