A research thread argues cluster outages slow experiments more than they stop research
nabla_theta · x · 2026-07-26
- The reply argues that researchers are already close to the optimal mix of thinking and experimentation given their costs.
- When the cluster went down, research still continued, just less efficiently, because people substituted more thinking for fewer experiments.
- The implication is that compute constraints change the speed of research more than the underlying ability to produce it.
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