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I think I mostly agree with everything you say in this last comment, but I don't see how my previous comment disagreed with any of that either?
The thing I care about here is not "what happens as a mind grows", in some abstract sense.
The thing I care about is, "what is the best way for a powerful system to accomplish a very difficult goal quickly/reliably?" (which is what we want the AI for)
My lists were intended to be about that. We could rewrite the first list in my previous comment to:
more advanced minds have more and better and more efficient technologies
more advanced minds have an easier time getting any particular thing done, see more/better ways to do any particular thing, can consider more/better plans for any particular thing, have more and better methods for any particular context, have more ideas, ask better questions, would learn any given thing faster
and so on
and the second list to:
more advanced minds eventually (and maybe quite soon) get close to never getting stuck
more advanced minds eventually (and maybe quite soon) get close to being unexploitable
and so on
I think I probably should have included "I don't actually know what to do with any of this, because I'm not sure what's confusing about "Intelligence in the limit."" in the part of your shortform I quoted in my first comment — that's the thing I'm trying to respond to. The point I'm making is:
There's a difference between stuff like (a) "you become less exploitable by [other minds of some fixed capability level]" and stuff like (b) "you get close to being unexploitable"/"you approach a limit of unexploitability".
I could easily see someone objecting to claims of the kind (b), while accepting claims of the kind (a) — well, because I think these are probably the correct positions.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.