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What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?

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Geoffrey Hinton Computer scientist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 2024
I always thought superintelligence was a long way off and we could worry about it later, and the problem for now is just to make these more intelligent. I wish I'd thought sooner about what was going to happen.
Recorded Adam Smith, Nobel Week in Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 6 December 2024 source ↗

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