Researchers Debate Whether Massively Parallel Agents Amount to RSI
Researcher gleech argued that running millions of parallel agents is a weak path to recursive self-improvement (RSI), since mere acceleration is not smarter acceleration. maksymandr countered that mass parallelism for speed may itself be how RSI unfolds.
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