gjm comments on Open thread, Sept. 29 - Oct.5, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 29 September 2014 09:07:27PM 2 points [-]

That would be a slightly less crude toy model, I guess. I would expect the truth to be somewhere in between -- e.g., soldiers have limited ammunition and limited ability to attend to everyone around them in a conflict situation, so the number of shots fired probably increases sublinearly with number of potential targets.

In case anyone was in any doubt: I have no knowledge of any of this stuff, have never served in any military force, etc.