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I think this is a really useful and thought provoking experiment. One thing that worries me, is that large corporations may find it easier and faster to give the AI brawn than brains. Why play fair when in competition when you have a money and machine advantages? I think this will be especially so with not so good AIs, and the advantages will remain after the brains part improves. So in your analogy, what about giving stockfish 3 extra queens? A second question is how does it do against stockfish with just 2 extra queens?

So assuming you are paid of an NIH grant subject to the 69% indirect, that’s ~$100,000 a year?

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Right – but the math is a bit different since I have an F31 fellowship.

I’m not sure you are talking about technology advancement but rather the gifts of different hydrocarbon ages. Your IR1 to me is better described as everything we could do with coal. IR2 is everything we could do with oil. IR3 seems different to me, if humanity invented true AI -will we be literally gods?

Also there is the issue of order of magnitude improvements only being noticeable when they pass the human scale and seeming irrelevant either side. Commuting to work in a flying car might be fun, but flying my desk home at the speed of light is far faster a... (read more)

Brad Delongs book that’s about to come out seems to be aimed at this question (at least from information about it before reading it)

Quite by accident I was at the Jenner house museum (Berkeley, England - worth a visit if you’re in the area) that day and they had a note celebrating the anniversary, but I think they celebrate all year around.