AI Researcher Humor: Sprinting for RSI While Petitioning to Pause for Vacation
austinvhuang · x · 2026-07-30
A piece of dark humor about the current state of AI research: researchers are simultaneously sprinting to develop Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) to maximize AI's progress, while also signing petitions to pause AI research so they can finally take a vacation.
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