Researcher Argues Parallel Agent Swarms Are a Weak Path to RSI
gleech · x · 2026-09-23
Responding to the claim that millions of parallel agents are how recursive self-improvement unfolds, researcher gleech lays out a four-point rebuttal:
- RSI means progress that raises the rate of progress.
- A swarm merely divides time-to-result by a constant.
- Growing a swarm adds effective research effort at a diminishing rate.
- Hence parallelism is a weak route to RSI; acceleration requires better agents, not just more of them.
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