Indeed, the mechanical component is far better at recursive self improvement, which is why I wrote:
Of course, in the end it would transition to a fully or mostly machine intelligence, either through offloading increasingly more cognition to the machine components until the organic brains were only a tiny fraction of the mind, or though using the increased intelligence to develop FAI/WBE.
It also occurs that for a ‘hive mind’ using the enhanced intelligence to acquire the resources to connect more people to the hive mind counts as quantitative, if not qualitative, biological self improvement.
Indeed, the mechanical component is far better at recursive self improvement, which is why I wrote:
It also occurs that for a ‘hive mind’ using the enhanced intelligence to acquire the resources to connect more people to the hive mind counts as quantitative, if not qualitative, biological self improvement.