Researcher: genuine breakthroughs take orders of magnitude more compute than people realize
generativist · x · 2026-09-13
Generativist argues that many people (himself included) under-appreciate how much "divine benevolence"—access to orders of magnitude more compute—it takes to achieve genuine breakthroughs, suggesting scale of compute is a prerequisite for real advances.
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