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A single bit of information can substantially change a model's function space by ruling out half of the hypothesis space.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“can still be like super dramatic you know even if it's like even like one bit can change like your function space a lot and it can like rule out like half the hypothesis space which is huge so like i don't think it's necessarily the case it's like small amounts of bits small amounts of rl once you're starting from a really good point means that like you don't have dramatic impacts in behavior at least like not necessarily”Play from 1:22:17Report a misattribution
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