Perplexed comments on What if AI doesn't quite go FOOM? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 02 October 2010 07:57:03PM 2 points [-]

It is important to realize that producing an agent capable of finding the optimum solution in a search space 1000 times as large is not the same thing as producing an agent capable of finding solutions that are 1000 times as good.

It sometimes seems to me that FOOM believers fail to take this distinction into account.