Luke_A_Somers comments on New report: Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 April 2013 11:14PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 30 April 2013 05:45:58PM 11 points [-]

That seems a little strongly put - NP-hard scales very poorly, so no real process can take N up to large numbers. I can solve the traveling salesman problem in my head with only modest effort if there are only 4 stops. And it's trivial if there are 2 or 3 stops.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 April 2013 06:12:51PM 8 points [-]

Conceded.