Self improving systems are not possible
Interesting framing by Daniel Jefferies:
Infinitely self recursively improving systems are impossible.
It’s impossible to make a system that can correct all its own mistakes when it is the very thing making the mistake in the first place.
How do I know?
Evolution hasn’t figured it out in millions of years, why would we figure it out in two or two hundred?
Your brain is a bunch of crude hacks. Wonderful hacks and amazing hacks but crude nonetheless.
When you have to figure out if something is “true” or “real” you don’t actually come to any concrete, real, objective truth most of the time.
Instead, we have a ton of micro approximations in our heads that sorta, kinda get closer to an approximation of reality/truth, though sometimes they are way the hell off.
Nearby leaves, connected by subject and form.