I think the premise of runaway intelligence explosion is a kind of naive platonism. It completely ignores the process - how we interact and acquire feedback and validation from outside, and treats intelligence as something that can be ported across domains.
My take is that you can only ideate with AI (and brains) but knowledge comes from the contact of those ideas with the world. Making AI better does not make feedback cheaper, faster or more plentiful, it is domain specific. And intelligence does not carry from one domain to another - I might be a good heart surgeon, that does not make me a good investor or AI researcher.
Einstein was forgetful, Ramanujan and Godel could not manage simple things like diet. Godel's fear of being poisoned made eating dependent on Adele tasting his food. We all know someone could be a genius in some domain and below average in many other domains.
Why does intelligence not simply apply across all domains? Why are our PhD's hyper specialized to their domains and not generalists? Why can't a brilliant scientist simply cure their own dyslexia and still struggle - if intelligence was portable to any domain?
The explosion story needs intelligence to be one substance that gets bigger and flows into any domain, I deny intelligence is general.
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My take is that you can only ideate with AI (and brains) but knowledge comes from the contact of those ideas with the world. Making AI better does not make feedback cheaper, faster or more plentiful, it is domain specific. And intelligence does not carry from one domain to another - I might be a good heart surgeon, that does not make me a good investor or AI researcher.
Einstein was forgetful, Ramanujan and Godel could not manage simple things like diet. Godel's fear of being poisoned made eating dependent on Adele tasting his food. We all know someone could be a genius in some domain and below average in many other domains.
Why does intelligence not simply apply across all domains? Why are our PhD's hyper specialized to their domains and not generalists? Why can't a brilliant scientist simply cure their own dyslexia and still struggle - if intelligence was portable to any domain?
The explosion story needs intelligence to be one substance that gets bigger and flows into any domain, I deny intelligence is general.