Developing Computational Agency

Programming is hard — it's hard for beginners to create and understand programs which makes programming as an expressive medium inaccessible. It's hard for experts — even I (the library's maintainer!) had difficulty understanding Fuzzyset, fixing bugs, and adding features. Programming is not just hard, but in my opinion it's needlessly hard, creati... See more

By contrast, the definition I proposed—AGI is achieved when it makes economic sense to keep your agent running continuously—is a binary, irreversible, and immovable threshold: Once we are running our agents 24/7, we’ve hit it, and there’s no going back. (After all, we can’t uninvent it.)

I like this definition because in order to meet it we will nee... See more

This paper examines the impending economic transformation from a regime primarily reliant on human labor and capital to one dominated by artificial general intelligence (AGI)-driven productivity. Utilizing an analytic framework based on production functions, it introduces a "power shift" index that delineates the conditions under which AGI may rend... See more