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The speaker considers a threefold acceleration of the current exponential rate of progress massive, while distinguishing it from a 100-fold acceleration.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“And to be clear, like considering how fast things are going now on an exponential,”
“if that exponential is like 3x faster,”
“that is massive.”
“But there's a big difference between that and like 100x faster.”Play from 30:49Report a misattribution
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