Zero-experiment RLT paper claiming 'infinite reasoning depth' goes viral, draws skeptics
generativist · x · 2026-09-13
Yifan Zhang announced the Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT), claiming it gives Transformers "infinite reasoning depth" and calling for pacing frontier progress until safe superintelligence is achieved.
Alexia J.M. and others pushed back: a paper without a single experiment is going viral — "either people have not looked at the paper or they asked an LLM to do it for them." The community widely views it as a hype-driven release.
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