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Alex Zhang welcomes conversations and potential collaborations with people who hold strong opinions and can explain their reasoning, even when they disagree.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“they'll like they'll be like i read your paper in quotes like recursive language models or like prime agent like a self-improving rlm harness or something uh and it's kind of like i i i like i really like people that are opinionated even if we disagree i think if you have strong”
“opinions and are able to like think through why you think those opinions are right or wrong because usually it's it's hard to to actually tell but like you have strong convictions about certain problems like i'm always happy to like”
“chat and even like potentially work on something together i have like no limit to who or like what i would like to work on so um yeah”Play from 1:34:39Report a misattribution
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