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Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

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  1. yanis_t · · focus · HN ↗
    Would be very glad if anyone explained to me if and why this is revolutionary.
    1. lantry · · focus · HN ↗
      Here you go:

      "Across algorithm engineering, mathematical optimization, and GPU kernel engineering, Dream-RSI achieves competitive or improved discovery quality while substantially reducing discovery cost in several settings."

    2. WarmWash · · focus · HN ↗
      Probably isn't by virtue of it being publicly released
    3. cmrdporcupine · · focus · HN ↗
      Fairly certain all the labs are doing this (RSI) at this point. It's a question of how public their proclamations are about it and how they're positioning PR etc.

      Even today's lighter weight models know how to write kernels and optimize them. I've had DeepSeek 4.1 Flash tune the crap out custom CUDA kernels on my own codebase and it was entirely competent at it. And cheap.

      The innovation pieces will be in the harnesses to support this. Which I guess is partially what's going on here.

      1. suddenlybananas · · focus · HN ↗
        It's not really RSI if you are just using the AI as a tool to help make it better. It has to be doing it itself, no? Otherwise self-hosted compilers are RSI.
        1. cmrdporcupine · · focus · HN ↗
          That's my point about the harness.
    4. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
      Why would you assume it is revolutionary?
      1. catigula · · focus · HN ↗
        Because “recursive self-improvement” is widely understood, even at labs, as having a non-trivial chance of eradicating human life.

        This is like asking why a paper called “I discovered God. This is the specific proof.” is revolutionary. Just tedious levels of incredulity.

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        2. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
          Anyone who seriously believe that and isn’t being hyperbolic for shock purpose is delusional. It’s a pretty standard research paper, you cannot assume any research that contains the terms RSI to be revolutionary
      2. dasyatidprime · · focus · HN ↗
        They wrote “if and why”.
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