I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “better coordination abilities”, but the primary difference between 9th graders and SpaceX employees is knowledge/training. The primary difference between elephants and caveman humans was the latter possessing language and thus technology/culture and beyond single-lifetime knowledge accumulation.
AGI instances of the same shared mind/model should obviously have a coordination advantage, as should those created by the same organization, but there are many organizations that may be creating AGI.
Even in a world where AGI is running on GPUs and is scale-out bound by energy use and fab output, it may be that a smaller number of larger-than-human minds trained on beyond-human experience have a strong advantage, and in general I’d expect those types of advantages to matter at least as much as ‘coordination abilities’.
I don’t have a precise definition in mind since I was parrotting Yonadav. My point was that SpaceX is way better than a random similarly-sized group of high schoolers in many many important ways, even though SpaceX consumes just as many calories/energy as the high schoolers, such that it’s totally misleading to describe them as “roughly equivalent except that SpaceX has a massive coordination advantage.” The only thing roughly equivalent about them is their energy consumption, which just goes to show energy consumption is not a useful metric here.
I totally agree that fewer, larger brains with experience advantages seem likely to outcompete many merely human-sized brains. In fact I think I agree with everything you said in this comment.
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “better coordination abilities”, but the primary difference between 9th graders and SpaceX employees is knowledge/training. The primary difference between elephants and caveman humans was the latter possessing language and thus technology/culture and beyond single-lifetime knowledge accumulation.
AGI instances of the same shared mind/model should obviously have a coordination advantage, as should those created by the same organization, but there are many organizations that may be creating AGI.
Even in a world where AGI is running on GPUs and is scale-out bound by energy use and fab output, it may be that a smaller number of larger-than-human minds trained on beyond-human experience have a strong advantage, and in general I’d expect those types of advantages to matter at least as much as ‘coordination abilities’.
I don’t have a precise definition in mind since I was parrotting Yonadav. My point was that SpaceX is way better than a random similarly-sized group of high schoolers in many many important ways, even though SpaceX consumes just as many calories/energy as the high schoolers, such that it’s totally misleading to describe them as “roughly equivalent except that SpaceX has a massive coordination advantage.” The only thing roughly equivalent about them is their energy consumption, which just goes to show energy consumption is not a useful metric here.
I totally agree that fewer, larger brains with experience advantages seem likely to outcompete many merely human-sized brains. In fact I think I agree with everything you said in this comment.