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interestpiquedyesterday at 8:30 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah I’m lost by the constant use of “exponential”. What is the x and y axis when the talking heads say this?


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TobyTheCamelyesterday at 8:45 PM

I think people are typically referring to the task-completion time horizon at a fixed success rate [1]. That has had pretty robust exponential scaling for many years now.

[1] https://metr.org/time-horizons/