Amadeus Brandes

TL;DR. Recursive self-improvement is bounded not by recursion but by inheritance fidelity. The variable that distinguishes sustainable from collapsing RSI loops is exogeneity — the degree to which the update signal originates outside the system's causal influence. AlphaZero (high exogeneity) compounds; pure self-distillation (low exogeneity) collapses. This reframes several familiar...