"Have you considered Actually Trying?" by Michaël Trazzi
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"Have you considered Actually Trying?" by Michaël Trazzi
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Summary
In the past week, Anthropic's 2x uplift results were all over Twitter, making some people physically ill.
People with long timelines are now realizing that the uplift Anthropic employees get from AI is real, which would have some pretty wild implications for when we’d get recursive self-improvement.
People are starting to feel like it's the endgame, “the board is set”.
I do agree with everyone else that it's starting to look like we’re in the endgame.
The companies will keep on accumulating more and more power, through smarter AI models, more compute, and more talent.
But the fight is not yet over:
“We have very little time to stop full recursive self improvement
But ASI hasn't taken over yet
If we all work really hard we might still have a chance
But this means that every single person who is aware of what is going on must be *actually trying*
Like "we're [...]
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Outline:
(01:41) Actually Trying
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First published:
November 10th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nts7RA9D2wTfcvk56/have-you-considered-actually-trying
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