When the recursive language model paper appeared, many people questioned what its purpose was, according to the speaker.

“maybe there's like a clear goal shaped around the models that we have today of like this is what i want to see but like i'll give i'll give the the like rlm like the recursive language model paper as an example because i think like it's a super super simple idea i think when it came out as well like there were a lot of people that were like when they see something like that they're like what is even the purpose of this”