Iteratively distilling roughly the latest three months of research progress, with humans still in the loop, can feel asymptotic as AI systems gradually approach human researchers' capabilities.

“some of us feel like it's asymptotic is like you're always like just trying to get the last three months of progress and that progress is being contributed to by us of course but it also still has humans in the loop and it feels like you know you're just constantly inching closer and closer to what the human researchers are like finding capable of doing”