Pause-paper author points to Section 6.3 for the algorithmic-progress rebuttal
wfithian · x · 2026-10-11
wfithian replies to Tom Davidson that the algorithmic-progress concern is addressed in Section 6.3 of the paper and welcomes his thoughts. Context: the argument is that historical algorithmic progress came mostly from scaling-complementary innovations — the transformer architecture and Chinchilla scaling — and a pause would stop scaling, slowing AP as well.
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