"Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible.

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• Young founders who appear to have no track record have almost always been working inside their problem for years already. MAMarc Andreessen25 Jan 2022
• A saboteur among our AI investigators would be hard to spot, because these models are sloppy and spiky enough that a suspicious error just looks like ordinary incompetence. ACAjeya Cotra1 Sept 2026
• The hypotheses AI 'co-scientist' systems are producing are ones the literature already contains, and the publicity around them does not say so. DLDerek Lowe27 May 2026
• Building an AI that embodies a real person is a much harder problem than inventing a new AI character from scratch. MZMark Zuckerberg28 Sept 2023
• The least verifiable part of AI research is the judgement call about what goes into the one big training run. RGRyan Greenblatt11 Aug 2026

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