The bottlenecking effect of size can be significantly reduced by eg replacing EM links with optical. We can’t do this yet, but something not very far above our intelligence might. It will probably find other ways to start taking apart the bottlenecks that seem static to us, being able to see further than we can. If the software starts out comparable to a human machinist and self-improves, surely your foresight horizons on its exact technical bottlenecks will quickly expire.
None of that excuses the exclusive cultural fixation on big bulky humanoids for tasks where a wheeled spider would obviously be better suited.
[ Re OP, I just can’t visualize converting that many car factories that fast when IIRC Elon had trouble simply convincing manufacturers to make Tesla doors an unconventional shape. Maybe China could make a billion humanoids in 20 years? But by then we have non-humanoid ASI. ]
The bottlenecking effect of size can be significantly reduced by eg replacing EM links with optical. We can’t do this yet, but something not very far above our intelligence might. It will probably find other ways to start taking apart the bottlenecks that seem static to us, being able to see further than we can. If the software starts out comparable to a human machinist and self-improves, surely your foresight horizons on its exact technical bottlenecks will quickly expire.
None of that excuses the exclusive cultural fixation on big bulky humanoids for tasks where a wheeled spider would obviously be better suited.
[ Re OP, I just can’t visualize converting that many car factories that fast when IIRC Elon had trouble simply convincing manufacturers to make Tesla doors an unconventional shape. Maybe China could make a billion humanoids in 20 years? But by then we have non-humanoid ASI. ]