The Agarwallas' seemingly accidental success is actually a common pattern, he adds.

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But the more common pattern is of a uniform mediocrity.

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Unfortunately, it is a pattern of reasoning that is all too common among cyberwar apologists.

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Another common pattern is when something gets slow, it builds up a large queue and slows everything else down, and again the answer is to shed load.

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Looking back on his inventions, a common theme since that first music composer has been pattern recognition which he believes is the essence of human thinking and the essence of the better-than-human artificially-enhanced intelligence that we are evolving toward.

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