What Dylan Patel thinks about ideas vs execution

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1. 3 Feb 2025

   Our readingTraining a frontier model achieves almost nothing by itself; all the economic and military power comes from deploying it, and deployment is what consumes the compute.

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   Their wordsTo some extent, training a model does effectively nothing. They have a model. The thing that Dario is sort of speaking to is the implementation of that model, once trained to then create huge economic growth, huge increases in military capabilities, huge increases in productivity of people, betterment of lives.

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