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Some AI research temporarily relaxes its objective and task realism to find workable methods, then increases realism after the method matures.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“It's it's sort of you're you're relaxing your objective a little bit. You're saying, yeah,”
“let's relax on the realism axis a little bit and find some methods that actually work and then like then try to get back to realism later after.”
“after the method matures a”
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