Eliezer Yudkowsky gave a talk at MIT recently that touched on this very subject: http://lesswrong.com/lw/itp/meetup_talk_by_eliezer_yudkowsky_recursion_in/ htt

Eliezer Yudkowsky gave a talk at MIT recently that touched on this very subject: http://lesswrong.com/lw/itp/meetup_talk_by_eliezer_yudkowsky_recursion_in/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/itp/meetup_talk_by_eliezer_yudkowsky... Some commentary by Scott Aaronson: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1558#comment-89317 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1558#comment-89317