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

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Comment author: Larks 01 December 2014 01:23:59AM 0 points [-]

I am slightly concerned by the equation

  • Rate of change in intelligence = Optimization Power / Recalcitrance

When introduced, Bostrom merely describes it as a monotonic function, which seems reasonable. But why do we assume that a quotient is the natural functional form?