Post-training has a ceiling too: AI will match, not surpass, the best humans
Liu_eroteme · x · 2026-09-29
Responding to a discussion on pretraining limits, one commenter argues post-training is also capped: it can only approach the best policies external verifiers can verify.
His prediction: we'll get models "equal to or slightly better than the best humans at any task," but not genuinely superhuman intelligence — a notable contrarian take in the scaling debate.
Related event: RLVR Is Capped by Verifiers, Limiting Path to Superhuman AI(3 posts)→
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