Automating the full AI research process creates a 25x acceleration in algorithmic progress, because the research loop can be executed continuously without the bottleneck of human researchers, while compute scaling remains constant.
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Daniel CocatelloEvidence Quote
“in our scenario it happens like six months later you know yeah so in our story get the superhuman coders use them to go even faster to get to the superhuman AI researchers that are able to do the whole loop that really kicks things off and now you're going much faster how much faster we say 25 times faster for the algorithmic progress at least of course your compute scale up is not going any faster at all because you still have the same amount of compute but you're able to do the the sort of uh algorithmic progress 20 times faster 25 times faster”
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:28:11 AM
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