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CarlShulman comments on Why could you be optimistic that the Singularity is Near? - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: gwern 14 July 2012 11:33PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 15 July 2012 04:29:15PM *  2 points [-]

There have been great improvements in linear programming overall, but the paper talked about applications to many areas, and Kurzweil cited the one with the greatest realized speedup, which was substantially unrepresentative.

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