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Connor Leahy–EleutherAI, Conjecture

The Inside View

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I've a Mediocre Answer to This Question

Economics is not a science, it's a technology, andits engineering. To optimize the actual economy is just computationally impossible. By constraining it by force to only we gongt, say, one plant, you simplify the optimization problem sufficiently that you can reason about it. A line and arbitrary system is definitely impossible, if only because of halting constraints. If ever aliens come down from space and hand us a usb drive with a g a g i point e x, do not run it immediately. There is no matter how much you analyze the code,. No matter how many inter-bitabilities there are - Burny won't be able to find out what I'm talking about

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