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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 20 November 2008 03:10:29PM 0 points [-]

To elaborate, as I understand it a distinctive feature of your scenario is a sudden growth speedup, due to an expanded growth feedback channel. This is the growth of an overall capability of a total mostly autonomous system whose capacity is mainly determined by its "knowledge", broadly understood. The economic growth literature has many useful abstractions for understanding such scenarios. These abstractions have been vetted over decades by thousands of researchers, trying ton use them to understand other systems "like" this, at least in terms of these abstractions.