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#50 – Doyne Farmer on Complexity and Predicting Technological Progress

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Is the Modularity a Part of the Story?

There's some weak empirical evidence now, there've been a few papers testing our idea. Ye, like things that you can print for example, tan ow improved rapidly. That was clearly part of the story behind integrated circuits. And and all you had to do was learn how to print smaller, and you got huge advantages across the board. Ishow to get better building dams or something, because it is so lumpy.

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