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Usain Bolt's top speed is about 44.72 km/h. My top speed sprinting is about 25 km/h. That's at least 50% as good. But I'd have a hard time getting paid even

by eru 9mo ago

Usain Bolt's top speed is about 44.72 km/h. My top speed sprinting is about 25 km/h. That's at least 50% as good. But I'd have a hard time getting paid even half as much as Mr Bolt.

SecretDreams 9mo ago
Yeah, but you'd both be quite suitable to go walk to the grocery store.
- eru 9mo ago
  Sure, but that would be a waste of Mr Bolt's capability for locomotion.
solumunus 9mo ago
Even someone with marginally less top speed isn’t getting paid half as much as Usain Bolt. Athletes aren’t getting paid per unit of output. This analogy is not analogising.
- eru 9mo ago
  No, no, you understood it exactly right: someone who's 99% as fast as Usain Bolt doesn't get 99% as much attention and money either.
  - solumunus 9mo ago
    Which doesn’t even slightly apply to what you’re drawing the analogy against. Your attempted analogy is invalid.
atwrk 9mo ago
OK but what if, staying in that analogy, you just have to wait 6-12 months to become as fast as Usain is right now?
- falcor84 9mo ago
  In this analogy Usain Bolt will get twice as fast too, right? Using a solution that is always twice weaker than SotA, would put a company (or a national olympic team) at a significant disadvantage to competitors which do use the SotA.