BillyOblivion comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: BillyOblivion 05 September 2011 12:52:51PM 4 points [-]

Don't confuse time-to-solution with correctness. Speed and the amount of facts at hand will not give you a good result if your fundamental assumptions (aka your algorithm) is wrong.

You cannot make up in quantity what you lose on each transaction, as the dot-com folks proved repeatedly.