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Current scaling-law theory is insufficient to explain why sparsity helps, the magnitude of its benefit, or whether that benefit plateaus at a particular sparsity level.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“So I think we don't, I don't think we have a good enough theory of scaling laws that”
“we really understand why sparsity is helping and to what,”
“how much it'll help and if that'll like plateau at some point at a certain level of sparsity.”Play from 1:13:23Report a misattribution
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