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Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive

aired Sep 14, 2026 · 92.0m
Signal
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Solid
confidence 0.99
Orig59.5
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty54.0
Summary

We're here in the studio with Vibu and myself and Richard Socher. You said it's your life's goal.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, it's, including: Thanks for having me.

Key takeaways
  1. 01it's essentially a super intelligence that can be given any kind of goal any kind of environment reward and then it will try its best to achieve those goals to create the kinds of
  2. 02But I feel like those downside scenarios that some optimists sometimes maybe don't consider enough, are fairly easily regulated compared to what sort of the doomers are worried abo
  3. 03I mean, we had an actual bill to regulate the number of flops in a model
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