4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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AI organizations can scale the number of instances up or down arbitrarily and replicate effective personnel or whole effective organizations.

Dwarkesh Patel · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026

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“or spin down an arbitrary arbitrary number of instances which have the right knowledge so if you want to hire more people it's not like just all the schlep of finding the right talent or whatever it's like your best talent you can just make an infinite copy of them or if you don't need them for the task anymore you like spin them down and you can just yeah replicate the most effective parts of your organization or replicate whole organizations together which are effective”
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