Dwarkesh's footnote on compute bottleneck to RSI strikes a chord in AI circles
zetalyrae · x · 2026-11-14
A footnote in Dwarkesh Patel's work suggesting compute may be a bottleneck to recursive self-improvement (RSI) is drawing attention. Dan Robinson, who has hoped compute would limit RSI, called the intuition a sledgehammer moment; Dwarkesh joked he perhaps shouldn't have buried it in a footnote.
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