Futurist Ramez Naam Makes the Skeptic's Case Against Recursive Self-Improvement and the Intelligence Explosion
clarejtbirch · x · 2026-09-28
Futurist Ramez Naam — who famously called the solar and battery revolutions years early — has published a long guest post, "Where's the 'intelligence explosion'?" on Noah Smith's Noahpinion blog, laying out his skepticism toward Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). Against the widespread industry belief that AI improving itself leads to a fast takeoff / FOOM and a technological Singularity, Naam offers a structured skeptic's argument, making this a notable counterweight in the ongoing AGI-timeline debate.
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