Yes! I actually reread this post today, and realized I was kinda thinking sloppily about power vs effort for years.
Power is what you observe when you live in a society of minds, the minds effect the world somehow but you don’t care about the implementation of any mind’s underlying search process.
Effort (which we sometimes call pressure, as in “applying optimization pressure”) is closer to a asymptotic analysis / computational complexity framing, where the particular choice of searcher is extremely relevant. (something like number of epochs times cost of each epoch, but more generally)
Yes! I actually reread this post today, and realized I was kinda thinking sloppily about power vs effort for years.
Power is what you observe when you live in a society of minds, the minds effect the world somehow but you don’t care about the implementation of any mind’s underlying search process.
Effort (which we sometimes call pressure, as in “applying optimization pressure”) is closer to a asymptotic analysis / computational complexity framing, where the particular choice of searcher is extremely relevant. (something like number of epochs times cost of each epoch, but more generally)