So my main crux here is whether you can be sufficiently confident of the 5x, to know that your tools which are 5x-appropriate apply.
This makes sense, though I probably shouldn’t have used “5x” as my number—it definitely feels intuitively more like your tools could be robust to many orders of magnitude of increased compute / model capacity / data. (Idk how you would think that relates to a scaling factor on intelligence.) I think the key claim / crux here is something like “we can develop techniques that are robust to scaling up compute / capacity / data by N orders, where N doesn’t depend significantly on the current compute / capacity / data”.
This makes sense, though I probably shouldn’t have used “5x” as my number—it definitely feels intuitively more like your tools could be robust to many orders of magnitude of increased compute / model capacity / data. (Idk how you would think that relates to a scaling factor on intelligence.) I think the key claim / crux here is something like “we can develop techniques that are robust to scaling up compute / capacity / data by N orders, where N doesn’t depend significantly on the current compute / capacity / data”.