@Miles_Brundage: Automated AI R+D, recursive self-improvement, etc. all feel like compute in a trench coat to me In the sense that they …
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Miles Brundage argues that automated AI R&D and recursive self-improvement are fundamentally dependent on compute being above a critical level and continuously increasing.
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Automated AI R+D, recursive self-improvement, etc. all feel like compute in a trench coat to me
In the sense that they would not be going anywhere (or would fizzle out at a much lower level) if compute weren’t both 1. already above a critical level, 2. always increasing
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