Mathilda Wrote:The assumption he is making is that progress will speed up exponentially. He cannot make that assumption.
And he doesn't. In fact he says the exact opposite:
Sam Harris Wrote:It's crucial to realize that the rate of progress doesn't matter. Any progress is enough to get us into the endzone. We don't need Moore's Law to continue; we don't need exponential progress... we just need to keep going.
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He said this verbatim in the video. How can you say he's making the assumption of exponential improvement when he specifically says the exact opposite in the video?
