I’m not sure there are any real experts on recursive self-improvement out there. The closest that I’m aware of is something like compiler experts, but even that doesn’t really recursively self-improve: If you run an efficient compiler on its own source code, you might end up with a faster compiler, but it will still give the same output. Expert on recursive self-improvement sounds to me to be a bit like being a xenobiologist. There’s probably a field there, but there’s a massive lack of data.
Only if you fail to consider history so far. Classical biological systems self-improve. We have a fair bit of information about them. Cultural systems self-improve too, and we have a lot of information about them too. In both cases the self-improvement extends to increases in collective intelligence—and in the latter case the process even involves deliberative intelligent design.
Corporations like Google pretty literally rewire their own e-brains—to increase their own intelligence.
If you ignore all of that data, then you may not have much data left. However, that data is rather obviously highly relevant. If you propose ignoring it, there need to be good reasons for doing that.
The whole idea that self-modifying intelligent computer programs are a never-before seen phenomenon that changes the rules completely is a big crock of nonsense.
Only if you fail to consider history so far. Classical biological systems self-improve. We have a fair bit of information about them. Cultural systems self-improve too, and we have a lot of information about them too. In both cases the self-improvement extends to increases in collective intelligence—and in the latter case the process even involves deliberative intelligent design.
Corporations like Google pretty literally rewire their own e-brains—to increase their own intelligence.
If you ignore all of that data, then you may not have much data left. However, that data is rather obviously highly relevant. If you propose ignoring it, there need to be good reasons for doing that.
The whole idea that self-modifying intelligent computer programs are a never-before seen phenomenon that changes the rules completely is a big crock of nonsense.