Dario Amodei says distillation is fundamental to intelligence and impossible to ban
beffjezos · x · 2026-07-23
Dario Amodei argues that civilization is basically humans distilling one another.
He extends the metaphor to the brain: learning chunks experiences together, and sleep is the brain distilling itself. His conclusion is that distillation is a core property of intelligence and cannot realistically be banned.
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