RSI Simulator Launches Web Game to Model AI R&D Economics, Highlighting 4 Recursive Self-Improvement Risks
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Updated · paradigm.xyz · Aug 11
RSI Simulator Launches Web Game to Model AI R&D Economics, Highlighting 4 Recursive Self-Improvement Risks
2 articles · Updated · paradigm.xyz · Aug 11
Summary
A new web game and companion explorer let users run an AI lab, allocating labor, compute and data to model when recursive self-improvement becomes self-sustaining.
The tools are built from economic models in The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement and related research, but the creators say the parameters are tuned for teaching rather than forecasting.
Four main takeaways emerged: weak links can dominate, recursive self-improvement may be compute- or data-constrained, acceleration may arrive in spurts, and early breakthroughs could be narrow rather than fully general.
Elasticities drive the model’s outcomes, especially how strongly new discoveries respond to current model capabilities, making up-to-date measurement critical to judging AI progress.
The release reflects a broader push to use interactive models to understand AI scaling laws, bottlenecks and possible inflection points in future research speed.