RLT Paper Touting Superintelligence Sparks Backlash

A paper on Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) claiming "infinite reasoning depth" and the dawn of superintelligence drew viral attention but was widely mocked by researchers, who noted it recycles old architecture and lacks even basic experiments such as pretraining loss curves.

2026-09-13 ~ 2026-09-14 · 3 related posts

• Zero-experiment RLT paper claiming 'infinite reasoning depth' goes viral, draws skeptics — generativist · 2026-09-13
• Researcher hails Recurrent Looped Transformer as 'dawn of Superintelligence', gets roasted for reinventing old architecture — burny_tech · 2026-09-14
• Recurrent Looped Transformer 'infinite reasoning depth' claim slammed: no loss curves at any scale — burny_tech · 2026-09-14