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

9 Post author: KatjaGrace 21 October 2014 01:00AM

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Comment author: KatjaGrace 21 October 2014 09:07:41PM 2 points [-]

If the initial system does not find a hardware overhang, it seems unclear to me that a 1000x less expensive system necessarily will. For any system which doesn't have a hardware overhang, there is another 1000x less efficient that also doesn't.