soreff comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: soreff 01 September 2011 02:24:27PM *  7 points [-]

I'm not convinced. One very simple gain from

more memory capacity and processing speed

is the ability to consider more alternatives. These may be alternative explanations, designs, or courses of action. If I consider three alternatives where before I could only consider two, if the third one happens to be better than the other two, it is a real gain. This applies directly to the case of

carry on using the same ineffective medical treatments because of failure to think of alternative causes