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Right now it might be amazing, but what if AI becomes exponentially smarter?

"Ah, I see you are trying to build an amateur rocket, but what do you think of the space elevator I just made?"

A space elevator from Earth's surface requires low-defect manufacturing of vast quantities of long, single walled carbon nanotubes. Developing a solution (if it is possible at all) requires extensive R&D work in laboratories and factories. If it takes an hour to run an experiment, and the next experiment depends on the outcome of the current one, then extremely fast and capable intelligence accelerates scientific research much less than it can mathematics or software.

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