John_Maxwell2 comments on Sustained Strong Recursion - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2008 09:03PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (46)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: John_Maxwell2 07 December 2008 01:24:10AM 1 point [-]

I've been wondering how much of Moore's law was due to increasing the amount of human resources being devoted to the problem. The semiconductor industry has grown tremendously over the past fifty years, with more and more researchers all over the world being drawn into the problem. Jed, do you have any intuition about how much this has contributed?