What will more intelligence do for us?
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- AI has solved complex mathematical problems, surpassing human mathematicians, yet the world remains largely unchanged.
- Superintelligence has arrived incrementally, not as an explosive singularity, with limited economic disruption.
- Intelligence may face diminishing returns; humans might already be near optimal for many cognitive tasks.
- AI's replicability via physical capital (GPUs, robots) can boost productivity regardless of raw intelligence.
- AI can synthesize distributed tacit knowledge, accelerating technology diffusion and process optimization.
- Cloud laws suggest AI can exploit complex causal regularities beyond human understanding, enabling new scientific discoveries.
- The key to productivity gains is combining human-like intelligence with computer capabilities, not just surpassing human intellect.