Dialogue with Davidad about Emergent Wisdom in Language Models

Transcript generated by Gemini-3.1-Pro and only partly checked for accuracy (but the parts I checked seem basically perfect).Ivan Vendrov: Welcome to the show, David.David Dalrymple: Thank you. Good to be here.Ivan Vendrov: I mostly want to pick your brain about the topic of emergent wisdom in language models, because it’s something that’s very confusing and controversial and people don’t really understand. I guess maybe just can you briefly summarize what’s going on with emergent wisdom?David D...