Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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And I think that you see the way that these models perform differently on benchmarks.
They are extremely jagged.
They can be super good at math and they can be super bad at poker at the same time.
They can be amazing at cracking cybersecurity problems, but not able to build anything in the physical world.
And because of that, I don't think that technology is as general as people suggest it is.
I also think that means that it is much harder to define a finish line to the race.
because you cannot adjudicate it, everyone will always feel that they are falling behind on some dimension.
I mean, to then make the case that these AI companies are making is they do believe in this recursive self-improvement.
They think that, you know, OpenAI, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic are all extremely focused specifically on the question of, can we build AI that builds itself?
Can we build an AI that can
train the next generation model completely from scratch on its own.
And in that sense, you get an exponential pace of improvement for whoever can hit that recursive self-improvement curve first.
And they think that this might lead to that company pulling ahead.
Right now, folks think that it's anthropic, which has the best coding models, meaning they can code faster, meaning that their next models are even better.
I can see where that argument is.
But I'm not sure when we look at the latest anthropic models versus the latest open AI models versus the latest Chinese open weights models that we see a company pulling ahead that decisively in that way, especially when every single company and lab is using the same recursive self-improvement strategy.
And so basically, I don't know that the race has a finish line, and that's what worries me about it continuing.
It's super interesting.
I mean, you literally have Ron DeSantis doing AI roundtables with Max Tegmark, who's been one of the leading advocates of pausing and slowing down AI, an MIT professor.
And you have Bernie Sanders doing viral videos with Eliezer Yudkowsky, the guy who's telling us that AI is probably going to kill us all if we build it.
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