I don't know about for all perpetuity. If history has shown, anyone that reaches the pinnacle eventually becomes complacent, technology improves by becoming faster/cheaper/smaller. That just means it is prime to always be susceptible to a new something coming along that stands on the shoulders of what came before without having to pay for it. They start where the current leader fought to achieve.

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Arodex 2 days ago | parent [-]

The idea behind self improving AGI is that it will "get" every "new something coming along" before everyone else.

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		Self-improving AI is a rhetorical sleight of hand to make you think that. Just because it can self improve doesn't mean it improves better than everything else or without substantial costs to develop improvement.