Perhaps a data-limited intelligence explosion is analogous to what we humans do all the time when we teach ourselves something. Out of the vast sea of information on the internet, we go get some data, and study it, and then use that to make a better opinion about what data we need next, and then repeat until we are at the forefront of the world’s knowledge. We start from scratch, with a vague understanding like “I should learn more economics, I don’t even know what supply and demand are” and then we end up publishing a paper on auction theory or something idk. This is a recurisve self improvement loop in data quality, so to speak, rather than data quantity.
Perhaps a data-limited intelligence explosion is analogous to what we humans do all the time when we teach ourselves something. Out of the vast sea of information on the internet, we go get some data, and study it, and then use that to make a better opinion about what data we need next, and then repeat until we are at the forefront of the world’s knowledge. We start from scratch, with a vague understanding like “I should learn more economics, I don’t even know what supply and demand are” and then we end up publishing a paper on auction theory or something idk. This is a recurisve self improvement loop in data quality, so to speak, rather than data quantity.