Ask: is intelligence per active parameter bounded or unbounded?
willcb · x · 2026-10-10
Robotics researcher Will Brown offers a compact thinking framework: ask yourself whether intelligence per active parameter is bounded or unbounded, then consider what each answer implies about how AI progress will unfold. The framing reduces the scaling debate to a single theoretical premise — whether intelligence density can keep rising without limit.
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