It&#x27;s not about LOC being cost-effective, it&#x27;s about orthogonality.  When you&#x27;re gaining knowledge about something, you&#x27;re expanding your data set.  When you&#x27;re getting wisdom(understanding) about something, you&#x27;re contracting it.<p>Everything that we&#x27;re doing currently points to a huge scattering of knowledge but little-to-no understanding.  So that&#x27;s what Alan was shooting for: trying to express everything with as little as possible.<p>The reason we can&#x27;t do it yet is that, while we think we know what we&#x27;re doing, we still don&#x27;t understand what we&#x27;re doing.<p>You may not believe in a silver bullet but very smart people believe we can do vastly better.  I think you may agree that we need to at least try.