At the end of 2023, will I believe that a rapid intelligence explosion is a plausible result of AI capabilities research, and the possibility is worth spending some non-negligible amount of effort investigating?
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I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be, but I also haven't looked into it that deeply. I know there are a lot of smart people who think it isn't possible, so it seems likely there's something they understand that I don't.
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