'Die getting Schmidhubered or live long enough to become one': scaling law priority drama
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-07
Community meme: "you either die getting Schmidhubered or live long enough to become a Schmidhuber yourself."
The trigger: giffmana noted that a scaling-law conclusion was long known — a key point of the NeurIPS 2022 paper Revisiting Neural Scaling Laws in Language and Vision, also by Googlers; Lilian Weng's scaling laws blog ends with a widget where moving one slider makes it immediately obvious, and Andreas's blog also flagged the ambiguity. A classic AI-community riff on academic priority disputes.
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