I Still Don't Get Foom
A blog post by Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias, dated 24 July 2014. post_date in the Substack page metadata; the text carries an addition dated "5Nov".
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- I Still Don't Get Foom Overcoming Bias (Substack copy of the blog; requested at the old address overcomingbias.com/2014/07/30855.html) · published 2014-07-24 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 4b4171f11c16517b2f9c0a6654b97c5c07b4e70fc75424f4f447c4a8aa97478c). Current Substack page of the post, dated 2014-07-24 in its metadata, with an addition dated "5Nov" in the text; retrieved 2026-10-29. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
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- Fast or hard takeoffHanson's post of 24 July 2014 argues that a 'local explosion', in which one small project's machine goes within weeks from weaker than a human to able to take over the world, is implausible, because one project could not innovate across thousands of software modules vastly faster than the rest of the world.2014-07-24 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Fast or hard takeoff: propositions page →
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