Manfred comments on The Curve of Capability - Less Wrong

18 Post author: rwallace 04 November 2010 08:22PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 November 2010 12:30:26PM 5 points [-]

Most growth curves are sigmoid. They start off looking like a FOOM and finish with diminishing returns.

Comment author: Manfred 05 November 2010 08:01:50PM 1 point [-]

Most growth curves of things that grow because they are self-replicating are sigmoid.

"Capability functions" get to do whatever the heck they want, limited only by the whims of the humans (mostly me) I'm basing my estimates on.