An Einstein runs on pretty much the same hardware as the rest of us. If genetic engineering can get us to a planet full of Einsteins without running into hardware limitations, that may not qualify as an “intelligence explosion”, but it’s still a singularity in that we can’t extrapolate to the future on the other side.
Another thought… genetic engineering may be what will make us smart enough to build a safe AGI.
An Einstein runs on pretty much the same hardware as the rest of us. If genetic engineering can get us to a planet full of Einsteins without running into hardware limitations, that may not qualify as an “intelligence explosion”, but it’s still a singularity in that we can’t extrapolate to the future on the other side.
Another thought… genetic engineering may be what will make us smart enough to build a safe AGI.