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Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever

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Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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2 of Ilya Sutskever's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: S-curves and diminishing returns, Specialise and trade.

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S-curves and diminishing returns

Most growth slows as it matures; the question is whether the curve is flattening or something new is restocking it.

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A million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently.

  1. Ilya Sutskever Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc. I think I think there'll definitely be there'll be diminishing returns because you want you want people who think differently rather than the same. I think that if they were literal copies of me, I'm not sure how much more incremental value you'd get. Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com · 25 Nov 2025 · 1:29:00 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    I think I think there'll definitely be there'll be diminishing returns because you want you want people who think differently rather than the same. I think that if they were literal copies of me, I'm not sure how much more incremental value you'd get.

Specialise and trade

Do what you are relatively best at and trade for the rest (comparative advantage); it holds until power or change breaks it.

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Even with human-like learners, competition will split the AI market into specialised niches rather than hand it to one company.

  1. Ilya Sutskever Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc. I think what's going to happen is that the way competition like competition loves specialization and you see it in the market, you see it in evolution as well. So you're going to have lots of different niches and you're going to have lots of different companies who are occupying different niches Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com · 25 Nov 2025 · 1:26:42 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    I think what's going to happen is that the way competition like competition loves specialization and you see it in the market, you see it in evolution as well. So you're going to have lots of different niches and you're going to have lots of different companies who are occupying different niches