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ACCount37yesterday at 12:33 PM1 replyview on HN

The case against "hard wall": every "hard wall" that was predicted so far was bypassed, and the measured performance keeps going up steadily.

The case for "hard wall": wishful thinking.


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Yossarrian22yesterday at 1:47 PM

He’s not saying there is a hard wall he’s saying there’s a point where we’ll need new techniques or technologies not just refine the current one. Less of a hard barrier like the speed of light than an innovative one like creating artificial ammonia to make industrial amounts of fertilizer to support increasing crop amounts