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The fastest factory-conversion precedent the speaker found was the World War II conversion of car factories into bomber factories.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“So fastest conversion we were able to find in history was World War II.”
“They suddenly wanted a lot of bombers.”
“So they bought up, in some cases bought up, in other cases got the car companies to produce new factories,”
“but they bought up the car factories, converted them to bomber factories.”55:26Report a misattribution
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