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with each iteration’s agent trained to imitate the amplified, decomposed judgment of the previous iteration rather than any single overseer’s raw judgment of the whole problem. The paper describes the intended trajectory in prose rather than in this compact notation, but the substance is the same: over successive iterations, “the agent X becomes more powerful and the role of the expert transitions into ‘coordinating’ several copies of X to solve the problem better than a single copy could solve it” [ 11 ] .
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