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The speaker is unsure whether every open-ended search problem should be framed as a very difficult unsolved problem with a clear objective.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“is what what like alpha evolved and some of these other works did uh like a year or two ago but i think what maybe is is not uh and i'm not sure if this is what you were alluding to but i think what's not super clear in open-endedness style search problems is do we frame all of them as basically like an unsolved very difficult problem or like where the objective is clear you”
“clear if that's not the case i still don't know yet entirely what the value of it is maybe you have other opinions like i i don't have too many opinions on this but at least from my time it's kind of like i i got the sense that like”
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