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With a memory system and repeated user corrections, an AI system can build an increasingly accurate simulacrum of its user and perform the desired actions more often over time.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“Now you can have a memory system.”
“So it just all every time it does something wrong, you say, no, you know, you should have done that.”
“And over time, you're building a kind of simulacrum of yourself and it increasingly does the right thing. And, you know, we can talk about the intelligence thing.”Play from 26:28Report a misattribution
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