Tom Davidson and Will MacAskill are both researchers at Forethought.
They discuss:
- What is the industrial explosion?
- Why the case for recursive self-improvement is stronger for physical industry than for software
- How fast the physical economy could grow, the case for weekly doubling times, and limits from natural resources
- Why authoritarian regimes might have a structural advantage in the industrial explosion
- Could a leading country outgrow the entire world to achieve decisive dominance?
- Why does the industrial explosion get ~1% of the attention of the intelligence explosion?
You can read a full transcript here.
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