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Physicist, AI Researcher
It might take two weeks or two days or two hours or two minutes. [...] So it’s very appropriate to call this [...] an “intelligence explosion.”
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AI Verified Verified: the 80,000 Hours transcript page published July 1, 2022 labels the speaker as Max Tegmark and contains the quoted first sentence at line 608 and the later "intelligence explosion" sentence at line 609, so the ellipsis-based excerpt is authentic and the stored author, date, and source URL are correct. ([80000hours.org](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-tegmark-ai-and-algorithmic-news-selection/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The source URL does contain a closely related passage by Max Tegmark in the transcript published July 1, 2022: “It might take two weeks or two days or two hours or two minutes” and then, a sentence later, “So it’s very appropriate to call this, if it’s the intelligence that keeps doubling, an ‘intelligence explosion.’” ([80000hours.org](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-tegmark-ai-and-algorithmic-news-selection/)) Because the supplied quote omits the words “if it’s the intelligence that keeps doubling” without marking that omission, it is not verbatim as written, even though it is based on a real 2022 Tegmark passage. ([80000hours.org](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-tegmark-ai-and-algorithmic-news-selection/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (80000hours.org podcast episode #133 with Max Tegmark, 2022) returns HTTP 403 when fetched via WebFetch. Web search confirms Tegmark has discussed extremely compressed intelligence-explosion timescales (hours/days/weeks) in this episode and in Life 3.0, and the vote (For) aligns with his published views on AGI rapidly leading to superintelligence. However, I cannot directly confirm the exact wording 'two weeks or two days or two hours or two minutes' from the source. Marking as ai_unverifiable per protocol. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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