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RandomLensman 31 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]

What is the thought experiment then to show other than a hypothetical piece of compute hardware? What's the experiment and its implication beyond the existence and its properties?

ben_w 31 days ago [–]

To show that RSI can, if bottlenecked like a human in quality, still represent a wild change from us for other reasons besides quality.

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