Automating Experiments Makes Premise Choice the Real Bottleneck in Recursive Self-Improvement
Gauri_the_great · x · 2026-10-18
The author argues that automating experiments makes the choice of experiment more consequential: all the speedup can go into testing variations of a bad premise without ever noticing the premise is wrong. Recursive self-improvement could accelerate the loop without guaranteeing it detects its own mistakes. The harder test for RSI is whether an AI can recognize when its own metric has become the bottleneck and decide what to optimize next.
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