In any case, my world model says that an AGI should actually be able to recursively self-improve before reaching human-level intelligence. Just as you mentioned, I think the relevant intuition pump is “could I FOOM if I were an AI?” Considering the ability to tinker with my own source code and make lots of copies of myself to experiment on, I feel like the answer is “yes.”
Counter-anecdote: compilers have gotten ~2x better in 20 years[1], at substantially worse compile time. This is nowhere near FOOM.
Proebsting’s Law gives an 18-year doubling time. The 2001 reproduction suggested more like 20 years under optimistic assumptions, and a 2022 informal test showed a 10-15% improvement on average in the last 10 years (or a 50-year doubling time...)
Counter-anecdote: compilers have gotten ~2x better in 20 years[1], at substantially worse compile time. This is nowhere near FOOM.
Proebsting’s Law gives an 18-year doubling time. The 2001 reproduction suggested more like 20 years under optimistic assumptions, and a 2022 informal test showed a 10-15% improvement on average in the last 10 years (or a 50-year doubling time...)