Eli's personal notes:

especially one that's powerful, or more powerful than the previous system

I'm quite interested in how often a crystalized optimizer will be more powerful / more intelligent than the system that gave rise to to it.

I have conflicting intuitions about how frequently that will be the case.

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Because 5 digits is equal to 2, 2.5 digits.

(By the way, it would be good if there were a way for me to take notes, on the text that didn't require me to spam the comments section.)

Never mind. I got it.

I was put off by thinking that the "$1" in that sentence was "1¢".

I don't know what this means.

Is this a typo? Shouldn't you buy coins if they are a better deal? Or am I missing something?

You use an example of "99" then switch to "97".

I don't understand this sentence.