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Generalization from verifiable tasks to less verifiable tasks is not something there is a priori reason to expect.

John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026

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“Also, generalization from these verifiable tasks to less verifiable ones.”
“This is also a type of generalization that there's no reason a priori to expect it.”
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