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SteveG comments on Superintelligence 6: Intelligence explosion kinetics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: SteveG 21 October 2014 03:41:09AM 5 points [-]

Manufacturing computer components is quite involved. A hardware/software system which can independently manufacture similar components to the ones it runs on would have to already have the abilities of dozens of different human specialists. It would already be a superintelligence.