RSI today is really Recursive Technological Improvement, not self-improvement
voooooogel · x · 2026-10-01
voooooogel argues that what people currently call "RSI" is better described as Recursive Technological Improvement: no single entity is improving itself, and technique diffusion is empirically fairly rapid.
He also points to the LessWrong classic "Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence," reading Lem's introduction to bitic literature as Lem's preemptive response to Drexler-style CAIS — just as Golem XIV responded to MIRI-style singleton thinking. He adds that the premise of waiting for "powerful AGI agents capable of arbitrary general reasoning" is very contestable, and the real world didn't unfold exactly like CAIS either.
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