Critique of doomers claiming recurrent depth implies no CoT
georgejrjrjr · x · 2026-09-02
The author criticizes certain technical doomers for repeating the obvious falsehood that recurrent depth implies the absence of Chain of Thought (CoT). The author argues that when smart people are this wrong, it cannot be reasonably regarded as a mistake.
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