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> People seem to model it like a smart person rather than something that thinks truly magnitudes faster than us.

Even if you model it like a smart person that doesn't think faster on average, there is the issue that a few minutes later you are dealing with a small army of smart people that are perfectly aligned with each other, and are capable of tricks like varying their clock rates based on cost, sharing data/info/knowledge directly, separation of training and inference onto different hardware, on-demand multitasking without task-switching costs, ability to generally trade-off computational space for time for energy, etc.

A silicon intelligence that is approximately human equivalent gets a lot of potentially game-changing capabilities simply by virtue of it's substrate and the attendant infrastructure.




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