descriptive claim
Amodei proposes 'marginal returns to intelligence' as the central analytic frame for powerful-AI impact, identifying five factors that bottleneck or complement intelligence: speed of the outside world, need for data, intrinsic complexity, constraints from humans (law/regulation/habit), and physical laws.
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locator: Basic assumptions and framework, factors list
“in the AI age, we should be talking about the marginal returns to intelligence, and trying to figure out what the other factors are that are complementary to intelligence”