SforSingularity comments on Mathematical simplicity bias and exponential functions - Less Wrong

12 Post author: taw 26 August 2009 06:34PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 August 2009 05:11:37PM 7 points [-]

Heck, any linear function is approximately exponential over a small enough scale.

Comment author: SforSingularity 27 August 2009 06:55:07PM *  0 points [-]

Do you mean "the exponential function is approximately linear over a small enough scale"?

Comment author: Andrew 27 August 2009 07:11:17PM 2 points [-]

Both are true.