4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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SPEAKER_01 says there is little recursive self-improvement training data available, and generating it is difficult and effort-intensive.

Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026

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“we think Yeah like there is likely some transfer and sort of even just even if like finance is not specifically like the information is important for like RSI just the general like meta learning of like how to figure out what's important how to have taste how to like do long horizon work is potentially generalizable and like there's not that much RSI like data in the world as well like it's kind of hard to generate and like that requires a lot of effort so like if you can sort of advertise in this other data get some transfer from it you already have masses of computing masses of parameter space so like why not do that as well as like obviously”
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