Recursive self improvement always sounded like a word game. What if I can "improve" my improving.. and than "improve" my improving-improvement... Oh my god I'm improving!
The concept of hard limits is one a lot of people don't understand at a basic level. It may well be that all technological progress asymptotes to a limit, and that that limit is a lot lower than most of us understand or want to believe- a limit enforced by the fundamental laws of physics.
I feel like this resembles people who thought Covid would be endlessly expontential
Soft and hard AI monotheism are very useful terms. Good that I'm a polytheist lol
Recursive self improvement always sounded like a word game. What if I can "improve" my improving.. and than "improve" my improving-improvement... Oh my god I'm improving!
The concept of hard limits is one a lot of people don't understand at a basic level. It may well be that all technological progress asymptotes to a limit, and that that limit is a lot lower than most of us understand or want to believe- a limit enforced by the fundamental laws of physics.