4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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People often imagine recursive self-improvement as a system repeatedly rewiring its own brain.

Tim Scarfe · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sep 2026

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“Now when most people think about recursively self improving intelligence”
“what they conjure up in their mind is a system that can rewire its own brain in a loop.”
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