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 a complicated hetrogenous process, yet it has improved by orders of magnitude.
The more a component is a bottleneck, the stronger the incentive to find any workaround. If the price of some material or component is starting to bottleneck the economy, there is a huge incentive to reduce your use of it, to find any kind of new way of making it, or other workaround.
In an economy, there is sufficient fungibility. Expensive components can be replaced by cheaper ones often enough, new methods of production can be discovered.
The economy is a complicated hetrogenous process, yet it has improved by orders of magnitude.
The more a component is a bottleneck, the stronger the incentive to find any workaround. If the price of some material or component is starting to bottleneck the economy, there is a huge incentive to reduce your use of it, to find any kind of new way of making it, or other workaround.
In an economy, there is sufficient fungibility. Expensive components can be replaced by cheaper ones often enough, new methods of production can be discovered.