gwern comments on Open Thread, March 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 14 March 2013 08:30:24PM *  0 points [-]

If computer hardware improvement slows down, will this hasten or delay AGI?

My naive hypothesis is that if hardware improvement slows, more work will be put into software improvement. Since AGI is a software problem, this will hasten AGI. But this is not an informed opinion.

Comment author: gwern 14 March 2013 10:00:59PM 0 points [-]

Are you familiar with the hardware overhang argument?

Comment author: MileyCyrus 14 March 2013 10:09:33PM *  0 points [-]

No, and Google is failing me. Is there somewhere I can read about it?

Comment author: gwern 14 March 2013 10:17:25PM -1 points [-]

Really? For me, the first 4 hits for "hardware overhang argument" seem relevant. Tossing in relevant keywords like "Lesswrong" make them even more so.