Ed Zitron

And the thing that I like about it as well is I think that we're in the next big thing is going to be RSI.

So just to be clear for the listeners, recursive self-improvement is just AI that builds itself.

It is a theoretical concept.

It has not happened yet.

But mysteriously, within the same six, seven-day period, this came out.

And Sam Altman said to his staff in a Slack message he knew would leak –

Oh, yeah, we might delay our IPO if we have signs of RSI, if we have signs of AI that can build itself.

Meta, a year ago, said in Personal Superintelligence, we're seeing the early signs.

And they're doing this because, in my opinion, maybe you disagree, Cal, they've run out of ideas to the point that they're literally going back to what Sam Altman said in 2019.

Yeah, we'll just ask the AI what to do.

Yeah.

Ask the AI how to build it.

These guys have so few ideas.

They're just like, Christ, can't we just make the AI do it?

Not the history.

Yeah, and I fully agree that...

I think it's a distraction as well from the actual reality of what these things are.

And I think it's a deliberate one.

I naturally fall on the side of just thinking these people are deeply cynical.

I've met people who think that Dario Amadei believes this stuff.