Only if there are no hardware limits, which seems highly unlikely.

Right, the comments are assuming an entrepreneur could conjure an army of brains out of nothing. In reality, the question is whether those brains are so much cheaper they open avenues currently unavailable. Would it be cheaper to hire an AGI or a human intern?

Or cranking on super intelligence. What’s the minimum coefficient of human intelligence necessary to boot strap to infinity?

Infinity intelligence is a very vague and probably ill-defined concept; to go to an impossible extreme, if you're capable of modeling and predicting everything in the universe perfectly at zero cost, what would it even mean to be more intelligent?

That is a hard limit on intelligence, but neural networks can't even reach that. What is the actual limit? No one knows. Maybe it's something relatively close to that, modulo physical constraints. Maybe it's right above the maximum human intelligence (and evolution managed to converge to a near optimal architecture). No one knows.

> if you're capable of modeling and predicting everything in the universe perfectly at zero cost

As far as we know, it's impossible to model any part of the universe perfectly, although it usually doesn't matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

The biggest problem that humanity has from the perspective of the people with the capital necessary to deploy this is 'How to consolidate more wealth and power into their hands.'

One million Von Neumanns working on that 'problem' is not something I'm looking forward to.

Yeah, I think you're probably right after further consideration and trying some new models today.