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Over the past couple of years, a useful forecasting heuristic has been to question one's intuitive assumptions and divide the estimated timescale by four.
Walter Goodwin · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026
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“a heuristic that has been successful over the past couple of years is to just”
“just always question your sort of logical assumption and then divide it by four on timescale.”Play from 23:27Report a misattribution
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