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David_Gerard comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity - Less Wrong
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I get the sense that "organization" is more or less a euphemism for "corporation" in this post. I understand that the term could have political connotations, but it's hard (for me at least) to easily evaluate an abstract conclusion like "many organizations are of supra-human intelligence and strive actively to enhance their cognitive powers" without trying to generate concrete examples. Imprecise terminology inhibits this.
When you quote lukeprog saying
should the word "corporation" in the first sentence be "[organization]"?
There are lots more organisations than corporations.
That's certainly true. It seems to me that in this case, sbenthall was describing entities more akin to Google than to the Yankees or to the Townsville High School glee club; "corporations" is over-narrow but accurate, while "organizations" is over-broad and imprecise.