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[–] lurker@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have unfortunately stumbled upon some nonsense from r/singularity

shockingly, the top comments are calling bs:

”I'm sorry but I think this time line is a load of bull. "Human task duration at 80% success". How exactly do you put a millenium prize puzzle on such an axis? It doesn't even make any sense. Whoever is making this chart is just trying to stay relevant but his analysis holds little predictive power.”

They also missed how that graph is measuring software/coding tasks, while the OP was estimating based off math ability, which are two wildly different fields

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i also like how they skipped the part where it was 10k (or whatever) instances running in parallel

[–] lurker@awful.systems 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The y axis is also incredibly misleading-everything under 56h is squashed down so that the gap looks bigger

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 15 hours ago

If they wanted to show exponential relationship, then exponential scale would work better, but i think it was just a ceiling on former benchmarks