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The most important advances often involve forms of generalization that researchers have no reason to expect in advance.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“But like the most important advances are often the types of generalization that we have no right to expect. So, for example, from.”Play from 9:55Report a misattribution
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