[ExI] Star employees benefit less from AI

[Gadersd]

> The thought occurs to me that for some jobs an increase of 17% in
> top-level performance might be worth more than an increase of 43% in
> below-average performance.
> (Though improving poor performers is still worthwhile).

The current AIs are quite awful at programming and logic compared to experienced humans. I suspect my inequality will hold in a few years if/when AIs surpass most experienced humans at such tasks. The point at which AIs generally surpass human programmers is what I consider the start of the singularity.

> On Sep 18, 2023, at 12:32 PM, BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 15:49, Gadersd via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I don’t think it will be long until
>> human + AI <= AI
>> 
>> Humans may turn out to be a major source of noise and bottlenecks.
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> 
> The thought occurs to me that for some jobs an increase of 17% in
> top-level performance might be worth more than an increase of 43% in
> below-average performance.
> (Though improving poor performers is still worthwhile).
> 
> BillK
> 
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