Critique of Anthropic's scaling: Argues "Responsible Scaling" red lines have been crossed
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-16
The post criticizes the debate around AI-driven acceleration definitions as bad faith, suggesting that Anthropic has crossed all red lines with its "Responsible Scaling" policy.
Comments highlight that Anthropic's researchers have access to thousands of GPUs, face no bottlenecks in kernel engineering, and their models can autonomously prove theorems and design experiments—constituting Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) rather than the modest growth they claim.
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