https://latentvariable.ai/tags/self-improvement/Recent content in Self-Improvement on Latent VariableHugoen-usSat, 04 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000https://latentvariable.ai/posts/the-gate-has-a-ceiling/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000https://latentvariable.ai/posts/the-gate-has-a-ceiling/A new impossibility result proves that classifier-based safety gates can’t keep up with self-improving systems. At a million proposed modifications, a classifier can safely approve at most 87 while a verifier could approve 500,000. The escape exists — but it requires proving safety, not predicting it.