First step, we must somehow understand what “self-improvement” means and how to measure it. Even this idea can be confused, so we need to get a better understanding.
Yes, absolutely agreed. That’s the place to start. I’m suggesting that doing this would be valuable, because if done properly it might ultimately lead to a point where our understanding is quantified enough that we can make reliable claims about how long we expect a given amount of self-improvement to take for a given algorithm given certain resources.
This is a bit different from other situations, where you can first measure something
Sure, situations where you can safely first measure something are very different from the situations we’re discussing.
Yes, absolutely agreed. That’s the place to start. I’m suggesting that doing this would be valuable, because if done properly it might ultimately lead to a point where our understanding is quantified enough that we can make reliable claims about how long we expect a given amount of self-improvement to take for a given algorithm given certain resources.
Sure, situations where you can safely first measure something are very different from the situations we’re discussing.