Dev: labs say they're close to RSI, and everything past it looks Yudkowskian to me
moultano · x · 2026-09-11
Google engineer moultano argues he has no way to gauge how close AI labs are to recursive self-improvement other than their own statements — and they say they're close. In his view, everything on the other side of RSI looks Yudkowskian, and he can't visualize an alternative scenario. A terse but pointed take on the intelligence-explosion debate.
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