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Humans Are Not Chinchillas: Revisiting “How Quick and Big Would A Software Intelligence Explosion Be?”.

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A post on LessWrong revisits Tom Davidson and Tom Houlden's model of an intelligence explosion, which asks how much AI progress could occur once AIs can fully substitute for human researchers in improving AI.

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“Introduction Tom Davidson and Tom Houlden’s prior model of an intelligence explosion poses the question: after AIs can entirely substitute for human researchers at the task of improving AI, how many year-equivalents of AI progress might be packed into a…”
LessWrong, 05 Oct 2026, 23:41.

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