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26 Apr 2026 The Cognitive Revolution AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute

“Yeah, In fact, there's other things done by Alan AI that showed if you, if you remove all duplicates before you do training, it actually gives rise to worse models. And you can kind of understand why because you have 1 lone, I don't know, crazy on the web saying something.”

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26 Apr 2026
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The Cognitive Revolution

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…Incredible that that is I I I was not aware that I was not aware that you can just repeat something and the LLM will assign it more more valence. Yeah, In fact, there's other things done by Alan AI that showed if you, if you remove all duplicates before you do training, it actually gives rise to worse models. And you can kind of understand why because you have 1 lone, I don't know, crazy on the web saying something. And that's given as much weight as, you know, a news story, you know about nuclear reactors. And and then you know it won't. That repetition also helps even humans realize this is an important story or an important fact. And so if everything's an even playing field with no repetitions, then things get weird indeed. In the limit, if, if search approached free, how would how would agent teams start changing? How, how how how does how does this process of information retrieval in the limit become as search goes to, you know, approaches that limit?…

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