“The AIs are trained to use English in this kind of case because it lets us have some observability into what they're thinking rather than non-English. It's not a lucky thing. It is an actual design decision that the AI labs are under pressure to relax, because the AIs will be much more efficient if they didn't use English.”

…we created a model of the world because human language models the world. Otherwise, how could we describe quantum physics unless we could describe it with like? Language. And I find that a somewhat satisfying answer, but it's still hard to answer the questions about consciousness or anything else.

…Hawaiian, which has 13 letters, and there's Cyrillic, which has 32 letters, and there's English. Not all languages are the same. There's binary code. And there may be languages that these entities can communicate in that we don't understand. And we are just lucky for now that they use English.

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With the scaling laws that you mentioned, the only pushback I have is that they're just empirical. You know, they're phenomenological. They're not immutable laws of nature like F equals MA. So again, what observation would convince you that scaling is going to hit some fundamental limit? I mean…

It's so great because you always give two questions in each question. So I'll try and pull those apart. Question one is about scaling, saturated. Scaling's already saturated multiple times. There's multiple scaling laws. I talk about a couple of them in the book, but the truth is we keep hitting…