Do you know, Josef Vassarionovich, what main argument has been advanced against uranium? “It would be too good if the problem could be solved. Nature seldom proves favorable to man.” — Letter from Georgi Flerov to Joseph Stalin, April 1942.
Huh, this reminds me of the current discourse around AGI and R&D acceleration and so forth. A lot of people seem to think something like this, they just aren’t willing to say it so bluntly. “No way does scaling up current systems just work, it can’t be that easy, more breakthroughs must be needed.” “Surely there are all sorts of bottlenecks and things, no way is Dyson Swarm possible in our lifetimes even for a society of superintelligences.”
Huh, this reminds me of the current discourse around AGI and R&D acceleration and so forth. A lot of people seem to think something like this, they just aren’t willing to say it so bluntly. “No way does scaling up current systems just work, it can’t be that easy, more breakthroughs must be needed.” “Surely there are all sorts of bottlenecks and things, no way is Dyson Swarm possible in our lifetimes even for a society of superintelligences.”