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In intuition-led AI research, tests are designed to examine the guiding intuition rather than being the primary source of the insight.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“right it's like a lot more guided by intuition and then the the inner loop is to elicit the or make tests for that intuition rather than like”
“the test itself leading to the insight.”Play from 32:25Report a misattribution
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