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A clever small-scale experiment could probably enable researchers to build a theory that generalizes to a large-scale experiment.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“Like there is probably some very clever way to do a small scale.”
“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 11:38Report a misattribution
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