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

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Comment author: Liso 21 October 2014 09:21:32PM 2 points [-]

This is similar to question about 10time quicker mind and economic growth. I think there are some natural processes which are hard to be "cheated".

One woman could give birth in 9 month but two women cannot do it in 4.5 month. Twice more money to education process could give more likely 2*N graduates after X years than N graduates after X/2 years.

Some parts of science acceleration have to wait years for new scientists. And 2 time more scientists doesnt mean 2 time more discoveries. Etc.

But also 1.5x more discoveries could bring 10x bigger profit!

We could not suppose only linear dependencies in such a complex problems.