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Blindly optimizing a single objective can prevent a search process from noticing interesting intermediate ideas or opportunities.
Tim Scarfe · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sept 2026
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“And basically what that means is if you hill climb on one objective,”
“You blind yourself to interesting stepping stones. So it's an interesting situation,”Play from 33:17Report a misattribution
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