The biggest reason humans can’t do this is that we don’t implement .copy(). This is not a problem for AIs or uploads, even if they are otherwise only of human intelligence.
Sure, with a large enough number of copies of you to practice on, you would learn to do brain surgery well enough to improve the functioning of your brain. But it could easily take a few thousand years. The biggest problem with self-improving AI is understanding how the mind works in the first place.
The biggest reason humans can’t do this is that we don’t implement .copy(). This is not a problem for AIs or uploads, even if they are otherwise only of human intelligence.
Sure, with a large enough number of copies of you to practice on, you would learn to do brain surgery well enough to improve the functioning of your brain. But it could easily take a few thousand years. The biggest problem with self-improving AI is understanding how the mind works in the first place.