Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Underconstrained Abstractions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 December 2008 06:58:29PM 5 points [-]

Robin, suppose that 1970 was the year when it became possible to run a human-equivalent researcher in realtime using the computers of that year. Would the further progress of Moore's Law have been different from that in our own world, relative to sidereal time? Which abstractions are you using to answer this question? Have they been vetted and validated by hundreds of researchers?