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The speaker would partly characterize superintelligence as having far greater data efficiency than humans, enabling faster accumulation of cultural evolution.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“I think of super intelligent.”
“I mean, there are different ways you could achieve it, but I would think of super intelligence as partly like when they become so much more data efficient than humans that they are able to build on.”
“cultural evolution more quickly and partly they do this just because they have the higher cereal speed partly they do it because they're in this hive mind of hundreds of thousands of copies but yeah i think if you have this data efficiency such that like”
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