recursive

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Systems that require suppressing feedback or distorting reality have to fight their own optimization to stay aligned, and that fight gets worse with every generation of recursive self-improvement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

In this lyrical memoir, Toews explores her writing career with storytelling that is at once propulsive and recursive, using her work as evidence of both her success and her inability to escape her past.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we’ve heard a lot of recursive testimony over the past week, and I think it’s safe to say we’ve all learned a lot about A.I.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023

Particularly in its recursive moments of erasure, Lusitano’s experience as a historical figure illustrates the kind of collective activity that has traditionally excluded composers of African descent from classical music’s conventional performance and academic institutions.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023

And I fell pretty far down that recursive wormhole until it transported me completely out of the White River High School cafeteria into some non-sensorial place only properly crazy people get to visit.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green