Comment on Superintelligence 5: Forms of Superintelligence

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:43:51 GMT

Economic growth comes (I believe) exclusively from advances in science and technology.

This alone doesn't seem sufficient to explain the distribution of economic growth between countries. Most science, and most technology more than a generation old, is now public domain. But even if we go two generations back, US GDP/capita was ~$25K, which would still put it in the top quartile of modern countries. The countries at the bottom of the economic lists are often catching up, but not uniformly.

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