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Everything filed under recursive self-improvement recursive self-improvement Everything filed under AI and science AI and science Everything filed under world models world models Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Self-correcting mechanisms are everywhere in nature; children learn to walk through them Self-correcting mechanisms are everywherein nature; children learn to walk throughthem YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since c. 2024–2025 — tap for who they are Same subject: The self-correcting mechanism is the opposite of the holy book: one claims infallibility, the other embraces fallibility — tap to centre the map on it The self-correcting mechanism is theopposite of the holy book: oneclaims infallibility, the otherembraces fallibility YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since c. 2024–2025 — tap for who they are Same subject: Recursive self-improvement only works if the base model is already capable enough to improve its own mechanism. — tap to centre the map on it Recursive self-improvement onlyworks if the base model is alreadycapable enough to improve its ownmechanism. Last stated 4 months ago 4 Jul 2026 LW Lilian Weng — holds since 2026-07-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: Good institutions are characterized by strong self-correcting mechanisms — tap to centre the map on it Good institutions are characterizedby strong self-correcting mechanisms Last stated 10 months ago 11 Dec 2025 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2025-12-11 — tap for who they are Same subject: A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute. — tap to centre the map on it A ban on self-recursive improvementin AI models would create a bigincentive for some other parts ofthe world to invest a lot more incompute. Last stated a month ago 22 Sept 2026 TC Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-22 — 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 recursiveself-improvement loop — what thelabs have shipped in recent weeksshows 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: AI research will be fully automated around 2030 or 2031, and AI will beat humans at essentially any job by about 2033. — tap to centre the map on it AI research will be fully automatedaround 2030 or 2031, and AI willbeat humans at essentially any jobby about 2033. Last stated 2 months ago 11 Aug 2026 RG Ryan Greenblatt — holds since 2026-08-11 — tap for who they are Same subject: A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic. — tap to centre the map on it A compound's AI origin story is notby itself a reason to expect it todo better in the clinic. Last stated 2 years ago 13 May 2024 DL Derek Lowe — holds since 2024-05-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it A computational discovery platformdoes not make a biotech fast,because the thousand other steps ofdrug development are still thebottleneck. Last stated 2 years ago 17 Sept 2024 AT Alex Telford — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known. — tap to centre the map on it A computational method can regularlypredict protein structures withatomic accuracy even when no similarstructure is known. Last stated 5 years ago 15 Jul 2021 DH Demis Hassabis — holds since 2021-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: A model that can predict the next frames of a video coherently understands the world, in the only sense of the word that is doing any work. — tap to centre the map on it A model that can predict the nextframes of a video coherentlyunderstands the world, in the onlysense of the word that is doing anywork. Last stated a year ago 23 Jul 2025 DH Demis Hassabis — holds since 2025-07-23 — tap for who they are Same subject: An adaptive agent's world model cannot be a static representation learned once and fixed — tap to centre the map on it An adaptive agent's world modelcannot be a static representationlearned once and fixed Last stated a year ago 17 Jul 2025 FC François Chollet — holds since 2025-07-17 — 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 anotherapplication domain for AI; it is themeta-skill that lets AI generate itsown training material and start therecursive self-improvement loop. Last stated 2 months ago 10 Aug 2026 FC François Chollet — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
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