Intelligence does not have a fixed upper bound; governance will cap it before IQ

Intelligence does not have a fixed upper bound; governance will cap it before IQ | intelligence if we define it in the traditional term because everybody knows my beef with the the framing here but it probably doesn't have a fixed upper bound because once you have recursive self-improvement there it becomes a function of compute and architecture that you're going to end up with governance ceilings and other constraints much more so than the IQ ceilings.

intelligence if we define it in the traditional term because everybody knows my beef with the the framing here but it probably doesn't have a fixed upper bound because once you have recursive self-improvement there it becomes a function of compute and architecture that you're going to end up with governance ceilings and other constraints much more so than the IQ ceilings.

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