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throwaway27448yesterday at 10:32 PM3 repliesview on HN

Nobody in this thread is trying to predict when the sigmoid is going to bend. Perhaps they should


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aurareturntoday at 1:49 AM

A lot of HN posters thought it was already bending at GPT4o/GPT4.5. Turns out, it kept accelerating (at agentic tasks).

yazaddaruvalayesterday at 10:51 PM

Predicting when the sigmoid bends is difficult and predicting how long until it unbends is equally difficult.

The simpler assumption is that over enough time, the S functions stack together for long enough that working backwards from exponential is a better predictor of reality.

These stacked S curves have continually been true with most technology.

haldujaitoday at 12:05 AM

It hasn’t bent already? 2022-2024 certainly seemed far more exponential than 2024 to present.