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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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LW and the more credulous parts of the general techsphere are going gaga over this
https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/
Is this the long foretold, mythical RSI?????
RSI = recursive self-improvement, not repetitive strain injury
Took one look at the post, “this is all slop isn’t it”, and sure enough the authors couldn’t even do the traditional academic’s single-commit dump without “co-authored by: Claude”.
The “recursive self-improvement” nonsense really baffles me. Excluding those who have a financial motive to talk about it, I don’t understand why anyone would think this would ever be possible for LLMs.
it’s not RSI because OpenAI told me they already achieved RSI on the WSJ podcast
(I’m trying to find it again but there was also an article on here about AI having none of the traits needed for RSI)
(edit: found it)
lol, I saw that going aflame among the promptfondlers nearest me, too
model auto-tune. they’re getting hype for model auto-tune. I expect we’ll little outside breathless tests of autotuned models for a few days
At least we've moved past ~~classifiers that we've had for 15 years~~ Jev
Reasonably good rebuttal
He links to comments on the orange site which are pretty predictable
Author believes we need to be more reasonable about child labour
More seriously, to save you the bother of reading it, he objects to comparisons between anti-slop sentiment and the actual Luddites, because slop haters are too… centralised? And then cites our friend SE Gyges in an update.
I clicked around the blog a bit and the guy’s definitely a slopfondler. But a reasonable sloperator, of course
Addendum: so this guy has apparently read all the literature on Luddites, yet still believes their concerns had anything to do with people being ‘displaced’ by ‘automation’. Fun reminder: ‘automation’ as a word literally did not exist until 1948.
Wait will this mean that poisoning LLMs will be even harder to detect and prevent?