RSI is not a perpetual motion machine; the real bottleneck is compute
shuchaobi · x · 2026-08-21
Argues that Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) is not a perpetual intelligence machine but spends external compute to gather information. The real bottleneck is the environment and the need to build data centers for compute, which currently requires humans.
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