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JoshuaZ 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: JoshuaZ 16 July 2012 07:34:05PM 0 points [-]

No, not particularly that I can think of. The only examples where people stop working on optimizing a problem is when the problem has become so easy that it simply doesn't matter to optimize further, but such examples are rare, and even in those sorts, further optimization does occur just at a slower place.