Data filtering emerges as its own scaling lever as researchers debate quality-scaling limits

tobyordoxford · x · 2026-09-09

In a reply thread, David Manheim argues marginal evidence suggests more model improvement comes from causes other than "add compute" or "add data," making those trajectories flatter than claimed — and raising the question of where quality-scaling tops out. Toby Ord agrees that breaking out data filtering as its own category is a useful mental-model update.

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