Chollet: agriculture is 'self-replicating, recursively self-improving open-source nanotech'
fchollet · x · 2026-10-13
François Chollet posted a witty take: explaining agriculture to people in San Francisco would blow their minds — it's self-replicating, recursively self-improving nanotech for the physical world, and it's all open-source. One instance turns into hundreds of seeds, then trillions, growing super-exponentially — a humorous analogy to AI discourse about recursive self-improvement.
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