Fortnow: Persistent Writable Memory Could Enable Recursive Self-Improvement
fortnow · x · 2026-09-12
Theoretical computer scientist Lance Fortnow argues that since program-data interchangeability is a tenet of computing theory, an ML system with persistent writable memory could reprogram itself, enabling recursive self-improvement — amplified when many agents share the same storage.
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