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Kilpatrick: superintelligence arrives as unlocked weights

development2025-12-12

Claim

Google's Logan Kilpatrick suggested superintelligence will arrive not as a new model but as existing weights unlocked by better scaffolding.

Reporting date: 2025-12-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 12, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to December 12, 2025

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Google

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Scaffolding, not weights

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Welcome to December 12, 2025

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Kilpatrick: superintelligence arrives as unlocked weights
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2025-12-12
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-12-kilpatrick-scaffolding-endgame
Claim: Google's Logan Kilpatrick suggested superintelligence will arrive not as a new model but as existing weights unlocked by better scaffolding.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to December 12, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-12-2025
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