Absolutely! This is a statement on minimization of computational effort. When the solution has already been provided we need not do any calculation. One way to think about the quoted statement and how I meant it is to consider big O notation and how some operations take O(n) or (O lg n) steps dependent on input in order to reach a solution or complete a process or spit out a result; in this hypothetical best case our operations all take O(1). This is not really a calculation but in fact knowledge coming to light.

Since writing this comment I have text-to-speech'd the whole of the article and I listened to it one afternoon over smooth classical music and I have come to appreciate the fact that many computers will have neural network processors like tensor processors or at the very least really good GPU, making it all the more likely that such algorithms [especially used in the specific case of fault intolerant data organization and file hierarchy] will actually not require so much computational effort as traditionally believed.