Ex-OpenAI researcher mocks labs' U-turn on recursive self-improvement
So8res · x · 2026-09-02
So8res, formerly of OpenAI's Superalignment team, mocks how quickly the industry flipped from dismissing recursive self-improvement (RSI) as "crazy sci-fi nonsense" to openly embracing it — quoting the framing "we've developed agentic AI, which is great because it allows us to accelerate recursive self-improvement."
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