control over the lower level OS allows for significant performance gains
Even if you got a 10^6 speedup (you wouldn’t), that gain is not compoundable. So it’s irrelevant.
access to a comparatively simple OS and tool chain allows the AI to spread to other systems.
Only if those other systems are kind enough to run the O/S you want them to run.
It may be irrelevant in the end but not in the beginning. I’m not really talking about the runaway phase of some AI but about the hard or non-hard takeoff and there any factor will weigh heavily. 10^3 will make the difference between years or hours.
Even if you got a 10^6 speedup (you wouldn’t), that gain is not compoundable. So it’s irrelevant.
Only if those other systems are kind enough to run the O/S you want them to run.
It may be irrelevant in the end but not in the beginning. I’m not really talking about the runaway phase of some AI but about the hard or non-hard takeoff and there any factor will weigh heavily. 10^3 will make the difference between years or hours.