4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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In a regime of recursive self-improvement, training methods, rewards, environments, and possibly the concepts used to understand them may change very rapidly.

Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

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“I mean, especially if you enter a regime of recursive self-improvement where the nature of training,”
“the rewards we're using,”
“the environments we're building,”
“maybe these concepts themselves will be changing very rapidly.”
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