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A service with real users is helpful but not necessarily required to generate useful prompts or tasks, since one can theoretically reason about what users want.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“Not necessarily,”
“I mean like yeah that's obviously very helpful but like theoretically you can just think about like what users want or like a”
“lot”
“of tasks”Play from 22:00Report a misattribution
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