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Vaniver comments on Macro, not Micro - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: jsteinhardt 06 January 2013 05:29AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 06 January 2013 08:19:43PM 0 points [-]

The techniques you use to optimize at the macro-level are fundamentally different

It's not clear to me that this is the case. The parts of the problem that are hardest change, but the problems are fundamentally similar in a deep way. I will agree that the training to improve macro-level optimizations and the training to improve micro-level optimizations have different focuses, and am working on a post that will be relevant to the former.