What Ilya Sutskever thinks about Addiction

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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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25 Nov 2025

Our readingThe human value function is extraordinarily robust — addiction aside — which is why a person can judge their own performance at a skill they have only just started.

Their wordsThey have a general sense which is also by the way extremely robust in people like whatever it is the human value function whatever the human value function is with a few exceptions around addiction it's actually very very robust

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