Nine hard limits that turn recursive self-improvement into a hidden S-curve
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-14
Assuming strong-form RSI is real rather than a marketing term, the author lists nine constraints that would cap it into a hidden S-curve: the subject/object problem (how do you verify your own improvement while being imperfect), physical-world trial-and-error being slow and imperfect, the time problem (drug side effects take decades — or you need a perfect simulator, which would obviate RSI), most knowledge being unverifiable unlike code, resource limits, continual-learning uncertainty, long-term memory compression and its tradeoffs, possible upper limits on learning, and the specialist problem where being good at everything means becoming average. He invites additions.
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