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gwern comments on Slowing Moore's Law: Why You Might Want To and How You Would Do It - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: gwern 10 March 2012 04:22AM

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Comment author: gwern 13 March 2012 02:16:18AM 5 points [-]

The law of accelerating returns is made by picking a high recent point and a close to zero starting point, extrapolating in between, ignoring any low points or decreasing endpoints, dishonestly claiming prediction hits (see his recent accounting), and finally, reusing the same cherry-picked datapoints.

It's not a counter-argument.