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This makes sense. Interacting with the world is hard and poses real bottlenecks. I think that resource acquisition is a solvable problem for such a system, robots seem mainly limit…

Is a coherent, human-interpretable, goal necessary for recursive improvement? > how can you be so sure that reaching that goal looks like the straight line you envision? Because th…

> you've set up a straw man I think you're right, my bad. > What I see is resistance to the idea that we can have any certainty about the future by drawing a straight line from the…

So I guess you are one of the people experiencing these gains. Can this model be scaled to the rest of society?

I generally agree with this. I suspect we just have different beliefs about how close we are to RSI. > Not saying it won't happen, but it's far from being the only plausible trajec…

> but who is the customer base after that? That's the fun part, there is none (in the traditional way of people buying things at least). > Why would I invest my earning into sustai…

> and have every reason to believe they aren't What reason? To me recursive self improvement seems credible, it's just a question of when. It seems obvious that given RSI, trend li…

I think it's credible to believe that that a system which is able to meaningfully improve it's own intelligence will lead to a far weirder world than the one imagined by the articl…

> Is there demand for 10000 iq intellegence Yes. If it looks like 10000 iq is possible, then money will be thrown at whoever is most likely to achieve it first, and whoever has the…

China will experience the same problems described in the article, even if that war happens and even if they win. They are possibly better equipped to deal with the problems, but I …

but, like, what if they weren't lying? Regardless, their actions seem to indicate that they are trying their hardest to make this true; given that they have the resources of a deve…

Don't forget that humans require inputs (land, water). It's not obvious that there is a happy equilibrium where the majority of humans are able to meaningfully compete for those in…

All they have to do is not reproduce. This is already happening.

> Automerge/Yjs require learning CRDTs I've been using Automerge for a while and haven't had to look at any CRDTs. To me this looks very similar to Automerge. Neat project!

I think the comments here have been overly harsh. I have friends in the community and have visited the LessWrong "campus" several times. They seemed very welcoming, sincere, and we…

Neat! Thank you!

> How much would a 10cm sphere of gold be worth in GBP? Is there some trick to this? Or do you have to input it like: You have: 4/3 pi (10 cm)^3 19320 kg/m^3 45000 GBP/kg (What Cha…