Paper on recursive self-improvement: AI that gets better at getting better
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-13
teortaxesTex mocks EA discourse about Chinese AI views while citing the paper "The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement", which argues true recursive self-improvement means AI improving its own improvement process — moving from executing human-designed improvements to choosing strategies, generating learning experiences, adapting from deployment, and eventually modifying the mechanisms that create future improvements.
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