Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.
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We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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