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The Force Unleashed

In: Accelerating Economic Growth

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  • Jakub Growiec

    (SGH Warsaw School of Economics)

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Was the rise of humankind inevitable? This chapter discusses a sequence of filters that the human civilization has passed to achieve the current level of development. It emphasizes the importance of crossing the threshold of net positive cumulative knowledge accumulation, underlying the rise of the homo sapiens as the dominant species on Earth. Human local control maximization is an emergent sub-routine of the grand process of species evolution which got out of evolutions hand. The chapter also speculates whether artificial general intelligence (AGI) will become the next filter for our civilization. There are at least two reasons why it may be. First, the orthogonality thesis: any level of intelligence can be coupled with more or less any final goal. Second, the sheer power that comes with intelligence. The AGI optimization process, a sub-routine of human local control maximization, may get out of hand just like human local control maximization got out of evolutions hand—through its pace, recursive self-improvement and greed for resources.

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  • Jakub Growiec, 2022. "The Force Unleashed," Frontiers in Economic History, in: Accelerating Economic Growth, chapter 0, pages 31-41, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:frochp:978-3-031-07195-9_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07195-9_3
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