How strong a superintelligence are you assuming, and what path did it follow? If it’s already taken over mass production of chips to the extent that it can massively build out its own capabilities, we’re past the point of industrial explosion. And if not, where did these (evidently far stronger than even the collective abilities of humanity, given the presumed capabilities,) capabilities emerge from?
Don’t think i follow this. My last comment was about the ultimate limits to (nano)robot doubling times, after lots of time to experiment/iterate, not imagining AI designing this stuff a priori.
The post assumes abundant AI cognitive labour on the level of top humans but nothing stronger.
Yeah, I think Thomas was arguing the opposite direction, and he argued that you “underrate the capabilities of superintelligence,” and I was responding to why that wasn’t addressing the same scenario as your original post.
How strong a superintelligence are you assuming, and what path did it follow? If it’s already taken over mass production of chips to the extent that it can massively build out its own capabilities, we’re past the point of industrial explosion. And if not, where did these (evidently far stronger than even the collective abilities of humanity, given the presumed capabilities,) capabilities emerge from?
Don’t think i follow this. My last comment was about the ultimate limits to (nano)robot doubling times, after lots of time to experiment/iterate, not imagining AI designing this stuff a priori.
The post assumes abundant AI cognitive labour on the level of top humans but nothing stronger.
Yeah, I think Thomas was arguing the opposite direction, and he argued that you “underrate the capabilities of superintelligence,” and I was responding to why that wasn’t addressing the same scenario as your original post.