Comment on New report: Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:53:14 GMT

Well, suppose cognitive power (in the sense of amount of cognitive work put unit time) is a function of total effort invested so far, like P=1-e^(-w). Then it's obvious that while dP/dw= e^(-w) is always positive, it rapidly decreases to basically zero, and total cognitive power converges to some theoretical maximum.

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