Paradigm releases RSI Simulator game exploring AI recursive self-improvement economics
A web game lets players run an AI lab bootstrapping superintelligence, grounded in economic models of recursive self-improvement.
What to know
- Paradigm built an interactive game grounded in economic models to help visualize how recursive self-improvement in AI research works and what constrains it.
- The game's key insight: compute and data bottlenecks may limit AI acceleration more than algorithmic progress, and self-improvement may occur in spurts rather than continuously.
- The tool draws on recent research from the Elasticity Institute on the economics of recursive self-improvement, making theoretical models intuitive through gameplay.
The simulator is overly theoretical and not practically useful, poking fun at the gap between academic models and real-world AI development.
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“Oh joy, yet another groundbreaking web game where you pretend to be an AI lab—because who wouldn't want to simulate the thrilling life of pouring money into a black hole of theoretical tech?!”
ngate · Mastodon
“Oh joy, yet another groundbreaking web game where you pretend to be an AI lab—because who wouldn't want to simulate the thrilling life of pouring money into a black hole of theoretical tech?!”
ngate, Mastodon user · Mastodon
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RSI Simulator - https://www. paradigm.xyz/writing/rsi-simul ator # hackernews
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RSI Simulator L: https://www. paradigm.xyz/writing/rsi-simul ator C: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9261192 posted on 2026.08.11 at 13:01:21 (c=0, p=5)