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17 connected korrents · 20 moments from 3 Oct 2012 to 27 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about recursive self-improvement .
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Read this korrent: AI takeover is not the thing to worry about: physical constraints bound recursive self-improvement, and humans reliably act once a risk becomes immediate.
AI takeover is not the thing to worry about: physical constraints bound recursive self-improvement, and humans reliably act once a risk becomes immediate.
Last stated 2 years ago
3 Feb 2025
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Nathan Lambert — holds since 2025-02-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI is already inside the recursive self-improvement loop — what the labs have shipped in recent weeks shows the cycle has started. — tap to centre the map on it
AI is already inside the recursive self-improvement loop — what the labs have shipped in recent weeks shows the cycle has started.
Last stated 3 months ago
3 Aug 2026
CP
Chamath Palihapitiya — holds since 2026-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Coding agents already do coarse-grained recursive self-improvement, because every use rewrites their instruction files and their long-term memory. — tap to centre the map on it
Coding agents already do coarse-grained recursive self-improvement, because every use rewrites their instruction files and their long-term memory.
Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jul 2026
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Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Coding is not just another application domain for AI; it is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive self-improvement loop. — tap to centre the map on it
Coding is not just another application domain for AI; it is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive self-improvement loop.
Last stated 2 months ago
10 Aug 2026
FC
François Chollet — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Human parity on discovery benchmarks like DiG-bench will be reached by mid-2027, marking the point where recursive self-improvement in AI seriously kicks off. — tap to centre the map on it
Human parity on discovery benchmarks like DiG-bench will be reached by mid-2027, marking the point where recursive self-improvement in AI seriously kicks off.
Last stated 2 months ago
17 Aug 2026
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Jack Clark — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Internal models at Anthropic and OpenAI are improving even faster than AI overall, with early recursive self-improvement beginning over the summer. — tap to centre the map on it
Internal models at Anthropic and OpenAI are improving even faster than AI overall, with early recursive self-improvement beginning over the summer.
Last stated a month ago
14 Sept 2026
ZM
Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) may not lead to runaway superintelligence without a major conceptual breakthrough. — tap to centre the map on it
Recursive self-improvement (RSI) may not lead to runaway superintelligence without a major conceptual breakthrough.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
27 Sept 2026
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Ramez Naam — holds since 2026-09-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated. — tap to centre the map on it
Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated.
Last stated a month ago
13 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-13 — tap for who they are
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Jan Leike — holds since 2026-01-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Recursive self-improvement in AI will mainly make existing model capability cheaper rather than raise peak intelligence. — tap to centre the map on it
Recursive self-improvement in AI will mainly make existing model capability cheaper rather than raise peak intelligence.
Last stated a month ago
19 Sept 2026
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Nathan Lambert — holds since 2026-09-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated. — tap to centre the map on it
A country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated.
Last stated 5 months ago
4 Jun 2026
AI
Alex Imas — holds since 2026-06-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean. — tap to centre the map on it
A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean.
Last stated 11 months ago
25 Nov 2025
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Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted. — tap to centre the map on it
A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted.
Last stated a year ago
7 Jun 2025
GM
Gary Marcus — holds since 2025-06-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A proposal to pace frontier AI development is unrealistic and mainly serves political control of AI. — tap to centre the map on it
A proposal to pace frontier AI development is unrealistic and mainly serves political control of AI.
Last stated a month ago
18 Sept 2026
BT
Ben Thompson — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Adapting over time is a workable answer to humans misusing AI and no answer at all to losing control of systems smarter than us. — tap to centre the map on it
Adapting over time is a workable answer to humans misusing AI and no answer at all to losing control of systems smarter than us.
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Apr 2025
HT
Helen Toner — holds since 2025-04-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Advanced AI is close enough that the preparations which take years have to be started now, whichever end of the expert range you believe. — tap to centre the map on it
Advanced AI is close enough that the preparations which take years have to be started now, whichever end of the expert range you believe.
Last stated 2 years ago
1 Apr 2025
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Helen Toner — holds since 2025-04-01 — tap for who they are
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Miles Brundage — holds since 2024-12-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A true artificial general intelligence cannot exist without being recognized as a moral subject. — tap to centre the map on it
A true artificial general intelligence cannot exist without being recognized as a moral subject.
Last stated a year ago
10 Jun 2025
SH
Samuel Hammond — holds since 2025-06-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AGI research made no progress in its first six decades. — tap to centre the map on it
AGI research made no progress in its first six decades.
Last stated 14 years ago
3 Oct 2012
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David Deutsch — holds since 2012-10-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An AI that cannot work out new physics has not equalled human intelligence, let alone surpassed it, because humans have worked out new physics. — tap to centre the map on it
An AI that cannot work out new physics has not equalled human intelligence, let alone surpassed it, because humans have worked out new physics.
Last stated 3 years ago
9 Nov 2023
EM
Elon Musk — holds since 2023-11-09 — tap for who they are
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