[ExI] Self improvement was Did Hugo de Garis leave the field?

[Keith Henson]

Thought experiment.

Build an AI.  Put a clock rate control in that it can mess with.

If it is measuring it's performance against an outside clock, it is
going to notice that it does better with the clock rate on fast.

So it sets it's clock rate to fast, effectively becoming smarter.

Seems to me this is self improvement.

Keith