Good post. And a list/spreadsheet is a good idea.
It’s possible that improvement in self-improvement over time will “feel” exponential. It’s also possible it’ll feel more dramatic—maybe at some point we’ll cross the threshold where investing one resource-unit quickly gives more than one resource-unit in return and this process is highly scalable, and then FOOM. Perhaps we should call the kind of recursive self-improvement that currently exists “subcritical” or something to distinguish it. (Edit: but note “subcritical” builds in assumptions of threshold-y-ness.)
Good post. And a list/spreadsheet is a good idea.
It’s possible that improvement in self-improvement over time will “feel” exponential. It’s also possible it’ll feel more dramatic—maybe at some point we’ll cross the threshold where investing one resource-unit quickly gives more than one resource-unit in return and this process is highly scalable, and then FOOM. Perhaps we should call the kind of recursive self-improvement that currently exists “subcritical” or something to distinguish it. (Edit: but note “subcritical” builds in assumptions of threshold-y-ness.)