However, It does seem that we talk about “hard take-off scenario caused by recursively self-improving intelligence” often enough to warrant a convenience term to mean just that. Much of the discussion about cascades, cycles, insights, AI-boxes, resource overhangs etc are specific to the recursive self-improvement scenario, and not to, e.g. the cache of Ancient tech scenario.
Completely agree with paras 1 and 2.
However, It does seem that we talk about “hard take-off scenario caused by recursively self-improving intelligence” often enough to warrant a convenience term to mean just that. Much of the discussion about cascades, cycles, insights, AI-boxes, resource overhangs etc are specific to the recursive self-improvement scenario, and not to, e.g. the cache of Ancient tech scenario.