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Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics argues that an AI that can reinvest the fruits of its intelligence in larger brains, faster processing and better algorithms should have growth curves sharply above human ones, the regime colloquially called hard takeoff. Copy claim link
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Date 2013-09-13 · publication Role Most developed Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Treats hard takeoff as a modelled regime, calling the scenario implications "disputable". Section 3 is titled "Some Defenses of a Model of Hard Takeoff".
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Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics ↗ Machine Intelligence Research Institute · 2013
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Source excerpt “Since an AI can reinvest the fruits of its intelligence in larger brains, faster processing speeds, and improved low-level algorithms, we should expect an AI’s growth curves to be sharply above human growth curves.” Location in source Section 1, third scenario, labelled "the intelligence explosion", printed p. 6 (PDF page 9)
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Technical report 2013-1; last modified September 13, 2013 Version date 2013-09-13 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-17 Language English (en) Attribution Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics (2013). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and minimal attributed excerpts only. Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Checked against the text layer on 2026-10-06; locator narrowed to printed p. 6. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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