timtyler comments on Imperfect Levers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: blogospheroid 18 November 2010 03:33:36AM 1 point [-]

Take a theoritical human being who has most of the actionable knowledge that a corporation possesses at one moment. My point is that the decision she makes will be better, for the bottom line, than one that most corporations make today. Today's business intelligence systems try to achieve this, but they are only proxies.

Comment author: timtyler 18 November 2010 11:43:28PM 0 points [-]

Take a theoritical human being who has most of the actionable knowledge that a corporation possesses at one moment.

So, this "theoretical" human has Google's data centres between her ears? One has to wonder what the point of such "theoretical" considerations are - if they start out this absurd.