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Research quality is nowhere near its potential ceiling.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“scale experiment that'll let you build the theory that then will generalize to the large-scale experiment so i would expect that like we're nowhere near the ceiling of how well you can do research and like”Play from 11:42Report a misattribution
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