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11 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 28 January 2015 11:11AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 28 January 2015 09:30:01PM 3 points [-]

Imagine casting a "speed ×100" spell on a dumb person.

Though this is the idea behind the AI in Branches on the Tree of Time.

And a very fast dumb machine can still kill reliably. And at least in some domains being dumb very fast can find solutions creativity alone wouldn't find either.