RSI isn't about acceleration—it's removing humans as the bottleneck
menhguin · x · 2026-11-06
menhguin argues that many people conflate Recursive Self-Improvement with "overall improvement velocity accelerating," but the real definition is "humans removed as a bottleneck." A tool that makes you work faster is hard-capped by human capacity, while something that scales your work is effectively unbounded—a far more consequential distinction than percentage acceleration figures.
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