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Luke_A_Somers comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI? - Less Wrong Discussion

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2013 07:54PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 13 June 2013 03:00:27PM 8 points [-]

If Charles Babbage had built his analytic engine, then that would seem to me to have gotten programming started long earlier, such that FAI work would in turn start much sooner, and so we'd have no hardware overhang to worry about. Imagine if this conversation were taking place with 1970's technology.