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SilentCal comments on Superintelligence 7: Decisive strategic advantage - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: SilentCal 30 October 2014 10:31:41PM 4 points [-]

One answer is that using your intelligence to to improve your own cognitive architecture is an entirely new field of investment. The economic growth that accrues from modern investing looks steady from inside the modern economy, but it's explosive from the perspective of a premodern society.