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The speaker suggests AI development may involve an unanticipated inner optimization loop and a slower outer loop, such as revenue, that should eventually become strong.

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“inner loop to optimize that the AIs wouldn't anticipate and there's an outer loop of like revenue or something that eventually should be strong but it's a very slow outer loop.”

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