Johnicholas comments on A Less Wrong singularity article? - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 17 November 2009 02:15PM

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Comment author: Johnicholas 17 November 2009 06:13:51PM 0 points [-]

As I understand it, the nuclear reactor metaphor is simply another way of saying "explosive" or "trending at least exponentially".

Note that most (admittedly fictional) descriptions of intelligence explosion include "bootstrapping" improved hardware (e.g. Greg Egan's Crystal Nights)