An interesting question I don’t know the answer to is if you get more cognitive empathy past the end of where human psychological development seems to stop.
Why isn’t the answer obviously “yes”? What would it look like for this not to be the case? (I’m generally somewhat skeptical of descriptions like “just faster” if the faster is like multiple orders of magnitude and sure seems to result from new ideas rather than just a bigger computer.)
There’s more in the sense I’m thinking in that it’s not clear additional levels of abstraction enable deeper understanding given enough time. If 3 really is all the more levels you need because that’s how many it takes to think about any number of levels of depth (again by swapping out levels in your “abstraction registers”), additional levels end up being in the same category.
And then there’s more like doing things faster which makes things cheaper. I’m more skeptical of scaling than you are perhaps. I do agree that many things become cheap at scale that are too expensive to do otherwise, and that does produce a real difference.
I’m doubtful in my comment of the former kind of more. The latter type seems quite likely.
Why isn’t the answer obviously “yes”? What would it look like for this not to be the case? (I’m generally somewhat skeptical of descriptions like “just faster” if the faster is like multiple orders of magnitude and sure seems to result from new ideas rather than just a bigger computer.)
So there’s different notions of more here.
There’s more in the sense I’m thinking in that it’s not clear additional levels of abstraction enable deeper understanding given enough time. If 3 really is all the more levels you need because that’s how many it takes to think about any number of levels of depth (again by swapping out levels in your “abstraction registers”), additional levels end up being in the same category.
And then there’s more like doing things faster which makes things cheaper. I’m more skeptical of scaling than you are perhaps. I do agree that many things become cheap at scale that are too expensive to do otherwise, and that does produce a real difference.
I’m doubtful in my comment of the former kind of more. The latter type seems quite likely.