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Games that simulate recursive self-improvement can help build better intuitions about AI development and its existential implications.

Paradigm Research's browser game allows people to experience the challenges of building AI systems capable of recursive self-improvement, helping build intuition about this important technology. ✦ AI generated

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Here's a fun game from the folks at Paradigm Research which aims to simulate what it's like to run a company building AI systems which become capable of recursive self-improvement... Developing better intuitions about recursive self-improvement is of existential importance to us all; games like this help make it easier for us to reason about this technology and the labs building it.

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