Skeptic asks how RSI can start when LLMs fail at far out-of-distribution tasks
mariofilhoml · x · 2026-11-15
A pointed question challenges the recursive self-improvement narrative: if LLMs are bad at far out-of-distribution tasks, how has RSI supposedly started? Self-improvement inherently requires models to work beyond their current capability boundaries.
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