I’m suspicious that the solution is so simple. If academic recursive self-improvement were as straightforward as you imply, wouldn’t somebody somewhere be making a killing off of it?
They have to topple the current system, which does make a killing, and I don’t see how a system controlled by academia would make a killing. I would think it would be more analogous to free and open source software than a business venture.
I’m suspicious that the solution is so simple. If academic recursive self-improvement were as straightforward as you imply, wouldn’t somebody somewhere be making a killing off of it?
Assume a perfectly spherical, frictionless economy of ideas …
They have to topple the current system, which does make a killing, and I don’t see how a system controlled by academia would make a killing. I would think it would be more analogous to free and open source software than a business venture.