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Of course, if you make enough incremental steps, the result is revolutionary. See for example, the series of small incremental steps from the the first transist
by MaysonL 12y ago
Of course, if you make enough incremental steps, the result is revolutionary. See for example, the series of small incremental steps from the the first transistor to the current 2 billion transistor integrated circuits.
- zecho 12y agoOr the series of small steps between primordial sludge and a man on the moon.
- api 12y agoTL;DR on the blog article I posted: in any complex fitness landscape there are points unreachable by simple gradient ascent. Innovation simply cannot be 100% incremental. Leaps must occur, and these are qualitatively different from hill climbing.