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AI systems need only be unevenly capable at building a better learner for the resulting learner to potentially be more general.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“one thing that sort of gelled for me recently was thinking about the fact that it is enough for the ais to be jaggedly good at building a better learner”
“Because that better learner can be more general,”Play from 31:39Report a misattribution
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