The speaker thinks factory conversion could take less time with superintelligence because the fastest historical precedent involved avoidable mistakes and ordinary human bureaucratic problems.

“we think it will potentially take less with superintelligence because,”

“first of all, if you look at the history of this process,”

“despite this being the fastest anybody has ever done this,”

“it was actually kind of a comedy of errors.”

“They made a bunch of really silly mistakes in this process.”

“even just doesn't have the normal human bureaucratic problems,”