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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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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.
Yes, as I understand it, inference requires strictly less computational capacity than training; it's just that a training setup can be turned around and run inference sessions massively in parallel. Just because you can run inference doesn't mean you can accomplish a training run. Unless there's some rationalist super-computer-science I've been missing this whole time...
That's always been the magic sauce that gives the AI supernatural abilities in rationalist lore, I think they cribbed it from the early singularitarians who had a thing about how when we got our shit together intelligence studying intelligence would lead to an "intelligence explosion", except they replaced the humanity-fuck-yeah aspect with robot fetishism.