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Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"?

58 points · 32 comments · anon373839

  1. toasty228 · · focus · HN ↗
    Pet theory: 70% of what we're busy with brings no value outside of keeping people busy/employed, which means automating it and making it 100x faster also brings no value in the end, no matter how much "intelligence" you can deploy
    1. light_triad · · focus · HN ↗
      Some sectors are less productive, but the reality is more mundane: only about 30% of the global workforce are knowledge workers. Adopting AI in real workflows takes time, and that time saved might not be used productively. Also solving Millennium problems is an amazing feat of engineering and mathematics, but doesn't change people's lives that much.
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