Relatedly, if intelligence is a complicated, heterogeneous process where computation is spread relatively evenly among many modules, then improving the performance of an AGI gets tougher, because upgrading an individual module does little to improve the performance of the system as a whole.
And to see orders-of-magnitude performance improvement in such a process, almost all of your AGI’s components will need to be improved radically. If even a few prove troublesome, improving your AGI’s thinking speed becomes difficult.
The economy is complicated and hetrogenious, but it has doubled repeatedly.
If you have radically improved all your processes except X then you have far more tools and reasources to use to improve the production of X. You also have far more resources, and a strong incentive to substitute X with the easier to make Y. In the real world, there are many different ways to get a job done, so we can route around bottlenecks. (Eg by replacing whale oil with mineral oil)
Edit: Yes a near repeat. Computer glitch. Thought I had deleted comment, but it got posted instead.
The economy is complicated and hetrogenious, but it has doubled repeatedly.
If you have radically improved all your processes except X then you have far more tools and reasources to use to improve the production of X. You also have far more resources, and a strong incentive to substitute X with the easier to make Y. In the real world, there are many different ways to get a job done, so we can route around bottlenecks. (Eg by replacing whale oil with mineral oil)
Edit: Yes a near repeat. Computer glitch. Thought I had deleted comment, but it got posted instead.