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Size of the smallest recursively self-improving AI?
JeremyStamper11y-20

The Stamper Minimum

There exists at any given time a minimum number of bits of code needed to give rise to recursively self-improving artificial intelligence (“The Stamper Minimum”).

The Stamper Minimum is an actual value, it is discover-able, and with sufficient intelligence, it will be discovered.

Because the probability of determining The Stamper Minimum correlates positively with the degree of intelligence applied to determining it, it is extremely unlikely that the code represented by The Stamper Minimum (“The Stamper Minimum Code”) will be used to originate super-intelligence. Instead, it is likely to be discovered retrospectively by a sufficiently advanced super-intelligence.

The Stamper Minimum is an ever-changing value because the effectiveness of The Stamper Minimum Code is necessarily linked to available external tools and technologies, which are themselves dynamic.

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