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If progress were mostly driven by random fortuitous discoveries, large companies conducting many more experiments would be expected to progress proportionally faster than small startups with a clear vision and strong researchers.

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

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“But if it was mostly random fortuitous stuff,”
“that would predict that like the giant companies with zillions of people trying zillions of different experiments would be like going proportionally faster than like the tiny startups that have the vision and the best researchers.”
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