In theory, yes, but that’s obviously a lot more costly than running just one instance. And you’ll need to keep these virtual researchers running in order to keep the new capabilities coming. At some point this will probably happen and totally eclipse human ability, but I think the soft cap will slow things down by a lot (i.e., no foom). That’s assuming that compute and the number of researchers even is the bottleneck to new discoveries; it could also be empirical data.
In theory, yes, but that’s obviously a lot more costly than running just one instance. And you’ll need to keep these virtual researchers running in order to keep the new capabilities coming. At some point this will probably happen and totally eclipse human ability, but I think the soft cap will slow things down by a lot (i.e., no foom). That’s assuming that compute and the number of researchers even is the bottleneck to new discoveries; it could also be empirical data.