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It's not a tautology, because it isn't clear that there is some threshold beyond which connections are too weak or too strong. I might think that more connectio
by TchoBeer 4y ago
It's not a tautology, because it isn't clear that there is some threshold beyond which connections are too weak or too strong. I might think that more connections are more good, for instance.
- 0xcafefood 4y agoSo it might not be possible to reach a state with connections that are "too strong" but logically if you could you'd have to define them by suboptimal performance.
- runnerup 4y agoSuppose your counter example would be like “superconductivity works best at temperatures that are neither too hot nor too cold” or “Carnot efficiency of heat engines is at its maximum when the temperature delta is neither too large nor too small”.
- tshaddox 4y agoThe sentence itself doesn’t even claim that there is such a threshold. It could be vacuously true.
- bawolff 4y ago> I might think that more connections are more good, for instance. Even still, there are a finite number of nodes, so there is a max number of connections. So the "just right" amount could be everything connected to everything, and the statement would still be true.
- pizza 4y agoIt's not pretty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptopathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptopathy Imagine any dinner conversation in America could enter into any other dinner conversation as desired - it would probably saturate into a meaningless cacophony and all relevance and context would get lost.
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