10 bits of info shrinks search space 1000x: why tiny AI research leaks may matter
cjmaddison · x · 2026-09-09
- shinboson's take: he guesses that minor descriptive notes about what Tristan & Levent were thinking were enough to advance the OpenAI team's work to a solution — many breakthroughs can be functionally described in 3 words.
- Information-theory angle: cjmaddison replies that as leverage goes up, so does the value of privacy; 10 bits of information reduces a search space by three orders of magnitude, implying even small leaks of frontier research context can carry outsized value.
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