Stuart_Armstrong comments on Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 30 August 2012 05:30PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 September 2012 06:06:25AM 0 points [-]

Not exactly. Robin's and Kurzweil's model have more data! (as they include Moore's law as a subcomponent).

Comment author: MaoShan 22 September 2012 03:27:28AM 0 points [-]

Don't you agree that Moore's law is the only trustworthy part of their models, though?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 September 2012 03:34:54PM 0 points [-]

Simply pointing out that it's not just the quantity of the data that matters, but other factors too.

Comment author: Vaniver 22 September 2012 03:41:49AM 0 points [-]

I think Robin's info about GDP growth throughout history is decent, too.

Comment author: V_V 16 October 2013 04:21:18PM *  0 points [-]

GDP estimates of premodern societies are highly speculative, and anyway the GDP of a premodern society was probably not a good measure of the magnitude of its economic activity.