(from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3037018 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3037018 ) Seeing http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm http://vpri.org/html

(from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3037018 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3037018 ) Seeing http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm I think we have good reasons to believe that we currently are several orders of magnitude above that amount of irreducible complexity. So, while I mostly agree with what you just said, I don't think we've hit the bottom yet. Silver bullet-like progress still look possible.