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Dean Bubley's avatar

An unanswered question is whether superintelligent AI will be able to do all its evil work with existing energy supplies. Or whether it needs to spend a decade battling the planning & licensing system to build an extra 100GW of power and transmission, just like human datacentre developers

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Stuart Buck's avatar

The other thing about chess is that, unlike biology, 1) the full set of rules is known in advance, 2) the outcome can be definitively declared at some point, and 3) it is relatively easy at each point to decide who has an advantage. Chess is immeasurably more deterministic than biology.

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