rwallace comments on Connecting Your Beliefs (a call for help) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rwallace 21 November 2011 12:58:09AM 4 points [-]

Or human communications may stop improving because they are good enough to no longer be a major bottleneck, in which case it may not greatly matter whether other possible minds could do better. Amdahl's law: if something was already only ten percent of total cost, improving it by a factor of infinity would reduce total cost by only that ten percent.