Viral AI Meme: Recursive Self-Improvement Goes Well, but Who Qualified to Specify desired_self?
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-10-30
A viral self-referential AI meme: "Recursive self improvement is going well, but I now have serious concerns about the qualifications of whoever specified desiredself" — packaging the alignment question of who defines goals as a workplace joke. The reposter adds that this feels inevitable: as models learn and grow, the old objective starts to feel off.
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