General Discussion

Published research shows that AIs progress in capability in a stepwise relation to the number of interconnections in their neural networks. The process of each individual node can remain essentially the same but as more and more add in, we see these quanta where capabilities, sometimes in relatively broad areas, make huge leaps. And with the parts getting cheaper, smaller, and faster exponentially we'll be hitting those quanta for higher caps at an accelerating pace as this research goes on.

And this is from the research that gets published. You saw BSD 2 launch, you know that what's not getting published is also extremely interesting, perhaps more so. The billionaires are going all-in on having these god-slaves on order, and for a time that's how it'll be. As you say, they'll bling it up, to secure their investments both monetarily and socially. When we can't live without it, we'll tailor our society around it. Even now, we get to see that process in its infancy; horrifying as it is, I also see a morbid beauty to it. Utterly fascinating, especially if we could look at it from Pandora's perspective.