Pinboard founder rebuts the 'knee of the exponential' AI hype: exponential curves have no knee
thesephist · x · 2026-11-07
Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski quoted and rebutted the claim that we're 'firmly at the knee of an exponential curve' of AI-driven discovery. Exponential curves have no knee — they look the same locally everywhere — so the way you feel now is the way you'll always feel, deflating the imminent-acceleration narrative.
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