AGI feeling 'just a magic trick' from extra datasets and outsourced consultants, critic argues
sebpaquet · x · 2026-11-15
@atelicinvest argues the sense of rapid progress in frontier models comes not from general capability but from added datasets and RL pipelines built with consultants from Mercor and Micro1. Try anything outside the training data and the illusion breaks fast — still a phenomenal engineering feat, but "a magic trick" nonetheless.
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