Amadeus Brandes

This is a thought experiment written in the form of a fictional court order. It imagines a sealed federal court order telling a major AI/data company to “forget” certain sensitive inferences about more than 200 million people. The point is not that one person wants their data deleted. The point...

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...