gwern comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 07 October 2010 12:31:17AM 0 points [-]

Voted down. Note that my interpretation is that your 'human-level intelligence' clause allows for tweaked uploads which could be almost arbitrarily re-engineered without exceeding human-level intelligence (for example, an organization made of the same mind replicated many times would be able to almost eliminate any internal controls, checks, balances, loafing, cheating etc. which take up so much of a modern corporation's energy). I think there could be far more efficient structures and minds optimized for them rather than monkey packs.

This says nothing about whether such organizations will come to exist, outcompete existing corporations or organizations; they may just be known as a possibility before the Singularity happens and renders the question 'what is possible with merely human-level intelligence' entirely moot.