Eliezer—To a first approximation, the economy as a whole is massively, embarrassingly, parallel. It doesn’t matter if you have a few very fast computers or lots of very slow computers. Processing is processing and it doesn’t matter if it is centralized or distributed. Anecdotal evidence for this abounds. The Apollo program involved hundreds of thousands of distributed human scale intelligences. And that was just one program in a highly distributed economy. We’re going to take artificial intelligences and throw them at a huge number of problems: biology (heart attacks, cancer, strokes, alzheimer, HIV, …), computers (cloud computing, …), transportation, space, energy, … In this economy, we don’t care that 9 women can’t produce a baby in a month. We want a gazillion babies, and we’re gloriously happy that 9 women can produce 9 babies in 9 months.
Eliezer—To a first approximation, the economy as a whole is massively, embarrassingly, parallel. It doesn’t matter if you have a few very fast computers or lots of very slow computers. Processing is processing and it doesn’t matter if it is centralized or distributed. Anecdotal evidence for this abounds. The Apollo program involved hundreds of thousands of distributed human scale intelligences. And that was just one program in a highly distributed economy. We’re going to take artificial intelligences and throw them at a huge number of problems: biology (heart attacks, cancer, strokes, alzheimer, HIV, …), computers (cloud computing, …), transportation, space, energy, … In this economy, we don’t care that 9 women can’t produce a baby in a month. We want a gazillion babies, and we’re gloriously happy that 9 women can produce 9 babies in 9 months.