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CarlShulman comments on Wanted: "The AIs will need humans" arguments - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 19 June 2012 03:05:49PM 0 points [-]

2) seems likely to consume only a tiny portion of all resources available to an interstellar civilization, in light of diminishing returns.

Would that be due to the proportions between the surface and volume of a sphere, or just the general observation that the more you investigate an area without finding anything the less likely anything exists?

Comment author: CarlShulman 19 June 2012 09:51:28PM 1 point [-]

The latter: as you put ever more ridiculous amounts of resources into modeling aliens you'll find fewer insights per resource unit, especially actionable insights.