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Traditional compute-based scaling analysis examines an envelope of model performance as a function of compute.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“And then like traditionally you would look at some kind of envelope based on compute.”
“So you would look at performance versus compute.”Play from 1:14:01Report a misattribution
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