ZankerH comments on Review of Kurzweil, 'The Singularity is Near' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ZankerH 27 November 2011 05:31:08PM 0 points [-]

Wrong. A two-fold increase in CPU clock rate implies a twofold increase in CPU cycles per second, and nothing more. Any number of pure hardware improvements - for example, increasing the number of instructions, decreasing the number of CPU cycles an instruction takes to execute, improving I/O speed, etc - can improve performance without changing the clock rate, or even while decreasing the clock rate, without introducing parallel processing cores.