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“Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics” (2013-09-13) contests Y10. Cites the hominid record as evidence against diminishing returns on cognitive improvement, and goes on to infer that researchers improving their own intelligence 'ought to go FOOM'. Copy claim link
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Date 2013-09-13 · publication Role Contesting, Later restatement Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Under the message-level rule, the passage, read with the paragraph, message or dialogue turn it belongs to, gives a reason against the premise that returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish. Scope and limits Premise addressed: Returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish. MIRI technical report 2013-1; cached PDF states 'Last modified September 13, 2013'. He adds in the same paragraph that this is hard to quantify.
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Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics ↗ Machine Intelligence Research Institute · 2013
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Source excerpt “…the evolutionary history of hominid intelligence doesn’t show any signs of diminishing returns—there’s no sign that evolution took ten times as long to produce each successive marginal improvement of hominid brains.” Location in source §3 'Some Defenses of a Model of Hard Takeoff', paragraph beginning 'But why believe that?', printed p. 31
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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 Candidate pack passage T10-c. The quotation (31 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 1fbf547c811aadb7785d9d681cc05c557c6786055ec15af14ae680537a924f4a) when checked on 2026-10-06. 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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Date. Report states "Last modified September 13, 2013"; first released April 2013.
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