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Nathan Lambert says benchmarks are a bottleneck for intelligence explosion

AINathan Lambert says a lack of good enough benchmarks is a bottleneck for the kind of recursive self-improvement described as an intelligence explosion. He adds that existing benchmarks can still be used to make models much cheaper.
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imo a lack of good enough benchmarks is a bottleneck. At least for the type of RSI describe as an intelligence explosion. You can use existing benchmarks to make models way cheaper, though.

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Original title: imo a lack of good enough benchmarks is a bottleneck. At least for the type of RSI describe as an intelligence explosion. You can use exi...