Agreed the quoted “we found” claim overreaches. The paper does have a good point though: the recalcitrance of further improvement can’t be modeled as a constant, it necessarily scales with current system capability. Real world exponentials become sigmoids; mold growing in your fridge and a nuclear explosion are both sigmoids that look exponential at first: the difference is a matter of scale.
Really understanding the dynamics of a potential intelligence explosion requires digging deep into the specific details of an AGI design vs the brain in terms of inference/learning capabilities vs compute/energy efficiency, future hardware parameters, etc. Can’t show much with vague broad stroke abstractions.
Agreed the quoted “we found” claim overreaches. The paper does have a good point though: the recalcitrance of further improvement can’t be modeled as a constant, it necessarily scales with current system capability. Real world exponentials become sigmoids; mold growing in your fridge and a nuclear explosion are both sigmoids that look exponential at first: the difference is a matter of scale.
Really understanding the dynamics of a potential intelligence explosion requires digging deep into the specific details of an AGI design vs the brain in terms of inference/learning capabilities vs compute/energy efficiency, future hardware parameters, etc. Can’t show much with vague broad stroke abstractions.