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I have been entertaining myself a bit lately by thinking about the ways in which some improvements to a design are very, very interesting to people when it takes 1.2 machines to do a task, not worth paying attention to when it's 6 machines to do the task, and suddenly very interesting again when it's 120 machines to do the task. There's that weird saddle point in the middle where I cannot get anyone else interested in my 20% resource improvements. It's just crickets.


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