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The speaker says mathematical progress is primarily bottlenecked by thinking rather than external requirements.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“I think the main difference is that mathematics,”
“you're purely bottlenecked by thinking and no external like,”Play from 29:12Report a misattribution
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