Yes, invention speed would definitely slow down. They'd use all kinds of trick that customers still needed to keep buying new hardware and that at higher prices, without getting much in return. Intel would surely try to save expenses in development and building new plants and just try to maximize their profits. That's why we needs regulations to keep competition in a state that's good for customers/society.

The 1st thought that came into my mind was basing it on second, meter and ampere. If you are able to apply a precise force via electrical current and are able to avoid friction, you could built a system and measure acceleration or resonance frequency and derive the involved mass from there. Putting it into practise in an experiment that delivers high precision seems to be the difficult part to me.

I assume the observer is just a normal one-eyed camera. What I don't get then is the way the distortion looks. I've just seen the vids. As you approach, the border of the blackhole starts to deform from the shape of a circle to something else. Top,bottom, left, right of it get flattened. How can that be ? The blackhole has the shape and symmetry of a sphere and if the view is centered on it, its border has to stay a circle, because neither that object nor the camera introduces some horizontal and vertical axis that works as a symmetry axis somehow for the deformed border that you see in that vid, when you get closer. There is nothing in that setup that introduces up, down, left, right, so imho that pic must have a rotational symmetry. Maybe someone can explain it. I'm just arguing with a bit logic&intuiton.

The turing test focusses on simulating a human conversation partner. Think there is wrong a picture in many peoples head, who think that any super ai that surpasses human intelligence will think like a human, just better. The reason, why we think like humans is because we are humans biologically. Human intelligence is a result of evolution and does a job, which is controlling the human body in a way that's benefical to the survival of the human species. So we have human emotions, human desires, human goals ... The AIs that we'll see, will most likely not be simulated humans, because that would be overhead. We primarily won't see AIs that simulate humans, who solve problems intelligently, we'll see AIs that solve problems intelligently directly. The 'pretenting to be human' step will be skipped for efficiency reasons. And the way to get there will probably be evolutionary algorithms and self-improving artificial intelligence. Proved concept, nature did the same and we are here and there was also no creator with super human intelligence. That we are here as a result of evolution proves that you don't need any being that understands intelligence and conciousness to create those, only thing you need is an evolutionary process that develops those and that's something we theoretically can already do, I think. We just lack the hardware. The brain is massively parallel and dynamic compared to any fixed wired chip. Simulated neural nets are toys compared to this. Once we have reached the lower bound that's needed for an AI that develops and improves it's own hardware, there are no limits anymore. It will be like creating new lifeforms better optimized for the tasks in this modern environment than humans, who carry all the clutter that's related to their biological past as a species with them. An AI doesn't have any need for that. At some point, might be quite fast, because superior intelligence is the only reason, why humans are on top of the foodchain currently, things might slip out of our hands. The AIs will set their own goals and modify their environment in a way that's in their own interest, not in ours and then we'll have lost the war forever, because the AIs will evolve with highspeed getting better and better in contrast to humans and take eveything out of our hands. Ok, who is scared now ? lol