bluej100 comments on The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 July 2013 06:46PM

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Comment author: EHeller 24 July 2013 06:25:00AM 4 points [-]

I think that a 300-IQ AI dropped on earth today would take five years to dominate scientific output.

I would estimate even longer- a lot of science's rate limiting steps involve simple routine work that is going to be hard to speed up. Think about the extreme cutting edge- how much could an IQ-300 AI speed up the process of physically building something like the LHC?

Comment author: bluej100 24 July 2013 06:29:10AM 2 points [-]

Yeah, exactly. Especially if you take Cowen's view that science requires increasing marginal effort.