reasoning
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 4, 2025 by Dwarkesh Patel · across every show →
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Aug 4, 2025
Patel: AI forecasters underestimate tasks required for total job automation
“I think the problem has been that people underestimate how many things are truly needed to automate human labor, and so they think, like, we've got reasoning, and now that we've got reasoning, we've, like, this is what it takes to take over a job, and I think,…”
Sep 25, 2025 positive
Chen: Reasoning provides essential robustness for long-horizon AI agents
“Reasoning is core to this ability to operate over a long horizon, because, you know, you imagine kind of yourself solving a math problem, where you try an approach, it doesn't work, and, you know, you have to think about, you know, what, what's the next approa…”