Blogger recants: things look exponential mid-sigmoid, and he was wrong
jxmnop · x · 2026-09-29
jxmnop quotes his own earlier take that "things always look exponential when you're standing in the middle of a sigmoid" and publicly admits "I was wrong about this." The post signals a revision of his view on AI progress curves, without further detail in the tweet itself.
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