Musings on Recursive Self-Improvement - by Séb Krier
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Hard takeoffs are... hard
When thinking about recursive self-improvement, there are two things to separate out: whether we’re talking about models (and scaffolds) improving more rapidly, or the wider societal/economic impacts of this recursive dynamic - i.e., stuff that depends mostly on deployments, adoption, and other bottlenecks. The lines are sometimes blurred in the discourse, and I want to make this separation clearer here. I also suspect many of these barriers are more structurally resistant to being dissolved by better capabilities than people often assume. The models will get better On the former: yes, we…
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