malthrin comments on [SEQ RERUN] Zut Allais! - Less Wrong

3 Post author: MinibearRex 27 December 2011 05:13AM

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Comment author: malthrin 27 December 2011 05:29:06PM 0 points [-]

It's a hack. Computation isn't free.

Comment author: cousin_it 27 December 2011 07:07:32PM *  1 point [-]

I don't see how the cost of computation can be the deciding factor here. The exact computation (34% - 33% or whatever) would probably take fewer CPU instructions than the evolved hack. And anyway both costs are tiny, because the human brain's processing power is comparable to all computers in the world combined.