// PERSON
John Schulman
ROLE AI RESEARCHERMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN MAY 15, 2026
// BIO
AI researcher and creator of PPO and General Advantage Estimation (GAE), foundational RL algorithms.
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mention·Dwarkesh·MAY 15, 2026
“I highly recommend John Schulman's general advantage estimation paper as like a good treatment on how to think about various ways to compute it.”
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