The bitter lesson says that there are many things you don’t need to understand, but it doesn’t say you don’t need to understand anything.
I think you’re doing a “we just need X” with recursive self-improvement. The improvement may be iterable and self-applicable… but is it general? Is it on a bounded trajectory or an unbounded trajectory? Very different outcomes.
The bitter lesson says that there are many things you don’t need to understand, but it doesn’t say you don’t need to understand anything.
I think you’re doing a “we just need X” with recursive self-improvement. The improvement may be iterable and self-applicable… but is it general? Is it on a bounded trajectory or an unbounded trajectory? Very different outcomes.