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by mjw_byrne
962 days ago
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There's a fun application of this argument to the bit in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, where a civilization runs a 7.5m-year-long computer program to calculate the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. Someone pointed out that they would have been better off waiting for about 40 years of Moore's law to happen, then building a computer and running the same calculation in about 2 years. |
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