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About a year before the conversation, many people argued that reinforcement learning would not scale successfully for models.
Dwarkesh Patel · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026
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“So I feel like a year ago, a lot of people were making this argument that RL will not be super successful at scaling for models.”1:18:04Report a misattribution
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