Timothy B Lee: X-risk usage of RSI and superintelligence is borderline incoherent
binarybits · x · 2026-09-21
Timothy B Lee (@binarybits) argues that the way X-risk proponents use the concepts of recursive self-improvement and superintelligence is borderline incoherent, making intelligent conversation difficult if those concepts are taken as givens.
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