Redditor questions the unproven premises behind recursive self-improvement arguments
LawrenceSellers · reddit · 2026-10-02
Reddit user LawrenceSellers challenges two common assumptions in RSI (recursive self-improvement) debates: that a threshold necessarily exists beyond which a sufficiently intelligent system can improve its own intelligence, and that this is likely as AI keeps improving. The post asks what evidence actually supports these notions.
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