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Under the hyperbola model, Daniel Kokotajlo places the most recent bottleneck around 1960, when the human population stopped reproducing at its earlier rate.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“The last time this hit a bottleneck, if you take the hyperbola view,”
“is in like 1960 when humans stopped reproducing at the same rate they were reproducing before we hit a population bottleneck.”
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