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Moore's law predicts life emerged 5 billion years before the Earth formed (archive.ph)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was only a matter of time that we saw a TechTake from this guy. I'm sorry to inflict Peterson on y'all, but this was too funny not to post.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's hilarious to me how unnecessarily complicated invoking moore's law is to say anything..

With Moore's Law: "Ok ok ok, so like, imagine that this highly abstract, broad process over huge time period, is actually the same as manufacturing this very specific thing over a small time period. Hmm, it doesn't fit. ok, let's normalize the timelines with this number. Why? Uhhh because you know, this metric doubles as well. Ok. Now let's just put these things together into our machine and LOOK it doesn't match our empirical observations, obviously I've discovered something!"

Without Moore's Law: "When you reduce the dimensions of any system in nature, flattening their interactions, you find exponential processes everywhere. QED."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

it's like being surprised at finding S-curves

(e.g. Moore's Law)