Emotions function as robust value functions that were shaped by evolution over millions of years, providing humans with reliable intermediate signals about whether they are making good decisions without requiring explicit external feedback.

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Ilya Sutskever

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Whatever the human value function is, with a few exceptions around addiction, it's actually very, very robust

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Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:07:19 PM

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