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Whether a system that changes code around its underlying model counts as recursive self-improvement is an open question.
Tim Scarfe · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sep 2026
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“But what if the system was only changing the code around the brain?”
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