Recursive self-improvement has no single starting moment — Cosmos Institute essay dissects the intelligence explosion
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-14
An essay by Aashish Reddy at the Cosmos Institute argues that recursive self-improvement (RSI) has no discrete on-switch: in the deep learning paradigm, the "self" being improved is gradual and distributed. Tracing the idea from I.J. Good's 1965 intelligence explosion through Yudkowsky's RSI framing, it notes AI already accelerates AI research and is becoming employee-like, and draws out what this means for human control.
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