Alicorn comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

16 Post author: MichaelGR 11 November 2009 03:00AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 13 November 2009 11:24:56PM 2 points [-]

It'd have to be a funny yardstick. Almost nothing we value scales linearly. I would start getting tired of kittens after about 4,250 of them had gone by.

Comment author: timtyler 13 November 2009 11:59:19PM 1 point [-]

Velocity runs into diminishing returns too near the speed of light - but it is still useful to try and measure it - and a yardstick can help with that.