Dean Ball: RSI will come from scaling mundane-but-difficult techniques beyond imagination
deanwball · x · 2026-11-03
Dean Ball argues that much of recursive self-improvement — and AI-driven scientific progress broadly — will come from applying once mundane-but-difficult techniques at scales unimaginable when they were invented. Quoter AlexKrentsel likens MIT's weight-space programming to 2010s interpretability work scaled beyond human capability.
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