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  1. Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?

    2026 · Post · Noahpinion (guest post) · full text held11 quotes · 4 claims

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1Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?10 quotes

2026 · Noahpinion (guest post) · Source

  1. “At the same time, the graph reports zero cases of AI autonomously completing AI R&D tasks.”
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  2. “Inside OpenAI, though, the July research-task horizon at 80% success was roughly 15 minutes.”
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  3. “Swarms can be dangerous even when they’re inefficient.”
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  1. “The AI of 2040 is going to look godlike, whether or not it explodes into an actual god in 2027.”
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  2. “Here’s my take: **Given our best current data, the AI self-improvement loop would need to be roughly 5–10× stronger to sustain itself, let alone run away.”
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  3. “METR’s Mythos Preview evaluation estimated that the model could succeed at 80% of coding tasks that took humans three hours.”
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  4. “Our processes are not ready to handle an intelligence explosion and we appear to be going full-steam ahead toward one.”
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  5. “Here’s Anthropic in the Mythos 5.1 system card: > “we believe that internal usage of recent AI models has been a key factor in *maintaining* the current rate of progress, but we do not yet see clear signs of dramatic acceleration beyond that rate.”
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  6. “I might be putting too much weight on a few observations and reaching a comforting conclusion I want to believe.”
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  7. “I expect increasingly superhuman performance in parts of formal math, coding, and cybersecurity, and any other verifiable domain where machines can generate training data and verify success at machine speed.”
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