I've been interested in AGI for a long time. But I've never been on board with the speculation about AGIs making multiple orders of magnitude improvement in in

I've been interested in AGI for a long time. But I've never been on board with the speculation about AGIs making multiple orders of magnitude improvement in intelligence. That is total speculation, and also it's not necessary to assume so much to have a similar outcome. It seems much easier to imagine an AI that is 2 or 3 times smarter than a human, and has very fast transfer of knowledge with other compatible beings. I think that's enough for them to take over, if there are enough of them. But anyway it seems obvious to me that we absolutely should avoid trying to build fully autonomous digital creatures that compete with us. We should rather aim carefully for something more like a Star Trek computer, without any real autonomy or necessarily fully generalized skills or cognition or animal-like characteristics/drives.