A simple anti-doomer argument: LLMs can't even do near-OOD tasks, let alone RSI
mariofilhoml · x · 2026-09-14
The author offers a brief counter to AI doomers: recursive self-improvement to the point of extinction is arguably a far out-of-distribution task, yet LLMs are already very limited even at near-OOD tasks—so how can doomers claim they will magically pull off something so far beyond their demonstrated capabilities?
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