A real RSI test should reach today’s frontier LLM from scratch, the author argues
kchonyc · x · 2026-07-27
The author argues that a real test for so-called RSI would be to use it to reach the current frontier LLM from scratch.
If RSI is truly exponential, the starting point should barely matter. Otherwise, the field is just re-inventing a computer-science loop and calling it something grander.
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