Were you using “feedback constant” to mean the second derivative of intelligence, and assuming each increase in intelligence will be more difficult than the previous one (accounting for size difference)? I took “feedback constant” to mean the first derivative. I shouldn’t have used an existing term and should have said what i meant directly.
I used “feedback constant” to mean the amount of intelligence an additional unit of intelligence would allow you to bring (before using the additional unit of intelligence). For example, if at an IQ of 1000, you can design a brain with an IQ of 1010, but with an IQ of 1001, you can design a brain with an IQ of 10012, the feedback constant is two.
It’s the first derivative of the most intelligent brain you can design in terms of your own intelligence.
Looking at it again, it seems that the feedback constant and whether or not we are capable of designing better brains aren’t completely tied together. It may be that someone with an IQ of 100 can design a brain with an IQ of 10, and someone with an IQ of 101 can design a brain with an IQ of 12, so the feedback constant is two, but you can’t get enough intelligence in the first place. Similarly, the feedback constant could be less than one, but we could nonetheless be able to make brains more intelligent than us, just without an intelligence explosion. I’m not sure how much the two correlate.
Were you using “feedback constant” to mean the second derivative of intelligence, and assuming each increase in intelligence will be more difficult than the previous one (accounting for size difference)? I took “feedback constant” to mean the first derivative. I shouldn’t have used an existing term and should have said what i meant directly.
I used “feedback constant” to mean the amount of intelligence an additional unit of intelligence would allow you to bring (before using the additional unit of intelligence). For example, if at an IQ of 1000, you can design a brain with an IQ of 1010, but with an IQ of 1001, you can design a brain with an IQ of 10012, the feedback constant is two.
It’s the first derivative of the most intelligent brain you can design in terms of your own intelligence.
Looking at it again, it seems that the feedback constant and whether or not we are capable of designing better brains aren’t completely tied together. It may be that someone with an IQ of 100 can design a brain with an IQ of 10, and someone with an IQ of 101 can design a brain with an IQ of 12, so the feedback constant is two, but you can’t get enough intelligence in the first place. Similarly, the feedback constant could be less than one, but we could nonetheless be able to make brains more intelligent than us, just without an intelligence explosion. I’m not sure how much the two correlate.