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At level zero, running a recursive self-improvement loop is not strictly better than humans performing research and development.
Zhengyao Jiang · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sept 2026
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“You can run recursive self-improvement loop,”
“but it's not strictly better than human doing R&D.”Play from 9:04Report a misattribution
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