Richard Socher says Jeff Clune and Tim Rocktäschel came to recursive self-improvement from an open-endedness perspective.

“the agents and so on but before that he also worked in robotics and he saw sort of the smaller simulations and how it's going to be really hard to scale that in full generality and so that's that was his angle coming to recursive self-improvement we have Jeff Kloon who's been working in like open-endedness for a long time together with Tim Rocktaschel. Tim Rocktaschel also built Genie 1,”

“anywhere um and so they they both came from this uh open endedness angle jeff also i think published one of the most exciting papers in recent years about recursive self-improvement called the darvin girdle machine uh super interesting paper uh if we could uh maybe pull it up pretty quick it would be like super interesting to see because you see”