Recursive Self-Improvement
A post by Eliezer Yudkowsky first published on Overcoming Bias on 1 December 2008 during the debate with Robin Hanson, now hosted on LessWrong.
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- Recursive Self-Improvement Overcoming Bias · published 2008-12-01 · Text checked in the post’s first stored version through the LessWrong GraphQL API on 2026-10-06; content version 1.0.0. Now hosted on LessWrong.Archived copy, captured 2019-04-27: Recursive Self-Improvement. Captured 3799 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2019-04-27. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.
- Recursive Self-Improvement Machine Intelligence Research Institute, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (2013) · published 2013 · Chapter 33 of The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (Machine Intelligence Research Institute, 2013), which compiles the 2008 Overcoming Bias debate with later posts; the compilation heads the post with its date. Current MIRI PDF, retrieved 2026-10-11. SHA-256 6b6dfd0416402e1776d7ddcece95298df2df0ed9bc0bd4a6f4bd81c4b1e5102a.
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