Once the initial bottlenecks are solved, which he put at about a year while saying it could be more or less, AI would gradually expand to other bottlenecks until it is integrating and improving all parts of the economy.
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Prediction with no dated horizon, conditional on hypothetical future AI.
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Scott Alexander, “Once the initial bottlenecks are solved, which he put at about a year while saying it could be more or less, AI would gradually expand to other bottlenecks until it is integrating and improving all parts of the economy.” (said 3 April 2025). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_f4e4a512eae0, method 0.1.0+8bea457b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f4e4a512eae0
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