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When a model has a low pass rate and is unlikely to answer correctly, it learns almost nothing from a reinforcement-learning episode.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“And I wrote some blog posts earlier this year where I was like, it's even worse than that because when the pass rate is low and the models are very unlikely to get...”
“Got to get the answer right.”
“It learns almost nothing at all from an RL episode.”Play from 1:18:23Report a misattribution
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