Could Recursive AI Improvement Compress Millennia of Progress into One Decade?
VraserX · x · 2026-11-11
A thought experiment: if recursive AI improvement pans out, thousands of years of technological progress could be compressed into a single decade — "born into one civilization, dying in another that's barely recognizable." A big-picture AGI acceleration musing without data or detailed argument.
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