Dwarkesh and Noam Brown debate whether automated AI research triggers an RSI explosion
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-19
Dwarkesh Patel sits down with researcher Noam Brown (@polynoamial) to debate a key recursion question: once AIs automate AI research itself, should we expect some crazy recursive self-improvement analogous to the current explosion in well-scoped but wildly ambitious math problems? The conversation probes whether automating research compounds like the math breakthrough wave now underway.
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