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Well, bad analogy. They don't self-modify by understanding their source code and improving it. They gradually grow larger brains in a pre-set fashion while learning specific tasks. Humans have very little ability to self-modify.
Exactly! Humans can go from toddler to AGI start-up founder, and that's trivial.
Whatever the hell the AGI equivalent of a toddler is, it's all but guaranteed to be better at self-modification than the human model.