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Isn’t his argument basically that humans suck at estimating exponential growth, tending to be biased towards a linear expectation? Wait but why had a nice arti
by CuriousSkeptic 8y ago
Isn’t his argument basically that humans suck at estimating exponential growth, tending to be biased towards a linear expectation?
Wait but why had a nice article series digging a bit deeper into that
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...
- seiferteric 8y agoIt's kind of funny since I would say the singularity is a result of being bad at estimating exponential growth, since all exponential growth eventually hits some limiting factor and slows down, like a sigmoid.