Random nitpick, doesn’t seem that central to anything:
I expect I could do a lot with 100,000 trained-software-engineer-hours, that I cannot do with 1,000,000 six-year-old hours.
Couldn’t you spend 200,000 hours (= 23 years) to have the 6yo grow up and train to be a software engineer, and then have 800,000 trained-software-engineer-hours?
(Maybe the point is that you still need the whole infrastructure of school and so on for the 6yo, and if you just imagine giving the 6yo a goal and saying “go”, you don’t expect them to do well?)
(One way this could be central is that I think this sort of “slow recursive improvement” is totally plausible while Nate thinks it isn’t?)
Random nitpick, doesn’t seem that central to anything:
Couldn’t you spend 200,000 hours (= 23 years) to have the 6yo grow up and train to be a software engineer, and then have 800,000 trained-software-engineer-hours?
(Maybe the point is that you still need the whole infrastructure of school and so on for the 6yo, and if you just imagine giving the 6yo a goal and saying “go”, you don’t expect them to do well?)
(One way this could be central is that I think this sort of “slow recursive improvement” is totally plausible while Nate thinks it isn’t?)