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7 quotes from John Schulman

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Date	Quote	Context	Source
Sep 11, 2026	Basically anything that can be learned through RL can be distilled very easily, because it’s a small number of bits.John SchulmanSep 11, 2026· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement	Source
Sep 11, 2026	In fact, I remember in the early OpenAI days having the intuition that just minimizing log loss wasn’t going to get you to intelligence.John SchulmanSep 11, 2026· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement	Source
Sep 11, 2026	Right now, you don’t get explosive growth in capabilities because you still get bottlenecked enough when you’re trying to do research and engineering.John SchulmanSep 11, 2026· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement	Source
Sep 11, 2026	So I would expect that we’re nowhere near the ceiling of how well you can do research.John SchulmanSep 11, 2026· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement	Source
May 15, 2024	Even in one or two years, we'll find that the models can do a lot more involved tasks than they can do now.John SchulmanMay 15, 2024· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: Reasoning, RLHF, and Plan for 2027 AGI	Source
May 15, 2024	Given the relatively small number of entities who could train the largest models, it does seem possible to coordinate.John SchulmanMay 15, 2024· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: Reasoning, RLHF, and Plan for 2027 AGI	Source
May 15, 2024	If AGI came way sooner than expected we would definitely want to be careful about it.John SchulmanMay 15, 2024· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: Reasoning, RLHF, and Plan for 2027 AGI	Source

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