Show Notes
Tom Davidson and Will MacAskill are both researchers at Forethought.
They discuss:
What is the industrial explosion?
Why the case for recursive self-improvement is stronger for physical industry than for software
How fast the physical economy could grow, the case for weekly doubling times, and limits from natural resources
Why authoritarian regimes might have a structural advantage in the industrial explosion
Could a leading country outgrow the entire world to achieve decisive dominance?
Why does the industrial explosion get ~1% of the attention of the intelligence explosion?
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