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AI · paradigm.xyz · Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Playable simulator models the economics of RSI: juggle labor, compute, data to bootstrap an AI lab

Paradigm shipped a playable game that puts you in charge of an AI lab racing to bootstrap self-sustaining recursive self-improvement, balancing researchers, compute, and data. Built on the "Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement" paper, it pairs pedagogy with a model explorer—a concrete way to build intuition about why AI-accelerated-AI could hit sudden inflection points.

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