Debating Recursive Self-Improvement and AI Moats
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-16
The shared post debates whether AI models can genuinely establish "durable moats".
The core argument is that Schmidhuber excels at pointing out risks related to concepts he invented but failed to build long-term defenses for. Questions like recursive self-improvement and whether AI labs can maintain their edge are ultimately macro-level strategic judgments rather than pure technical details.
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