An AI might go from infrahuman to transhuman in less than a week?
That doesn't seem like quite an antiprediction. An antiprediction would be that it will take less than a week or more than a century. Predicting less than a week would take a bit of evidence on top of that.
Today's post, Disjunctions, Antipredictions, Etc. was originally published on 09 December 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
A few tricks Yudkowsky uses to think about the future.
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