This essay is about the nature and character of algorithms that would lead to artificial super intelligence (ASI) primarily through recursive self improvement. It is a window into my intuitions at the current time. current bottlenecks OpenAI just recently released a long form podcast talking about primarily pre-training gpt4.5 and the various lessons that it taught them. I never thought I would see such transparency from OpenAI and it serves as valuable insight into the current state of ML re...