Richard Socher: superintelligence will soon make almost all new scientific discoveries
RichardSocher · x · 2026-10-27
Recursive CEO Richard Socher explains why most people, including top domain scientists, underestimated AI's impact.
His core argument:
- "People underestimate the crazy complex combinatorial space of already existing ideas" — physics, chemistry, biology, CS, complexity theory and OS concepts already form a vast space to explore.
- Like chess, the key is building intuition for which idea combinations are viable; superintelligence excels at exactly that search, and will soon drive nearly all discoveries and scientific progress.
He cites the Transformer paper: the real breakthrough wasn't inventing attention but eliminating recurrent layers — insight comes from pruning existing idea combinations.
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