Discussion: Is AQuA truly Recursive Self-Improvement if weights never change?
derspenti · reddit · 2026-08-18
Critiquing the AQuA paper's claim of "Recursive Self-Improvement" (RSI), the author notes that the system only improves by storing validated evidence in a persistent state, while the underlying model weights remain fixed. This arguably makes it memory-augmented research automation rather than true RSI.
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