Gray_Area comments on Artificial Addition - Less Wrong
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Well shooting randomly is perhaps a bad idea, but I think the best we can do is shoot systematically, which is hardly better (takes exponentially many bullets). So you either have to be lucky, or hope the target isn't very far, so you don't need to a wide cone to take pot shots at, or hope P=NP.
quadratically many, actually.
EDIT: well, in the case of actual shooting at least.