Cunningham and colleagues’ back-of-the-envelope calibration suggests current feedback is below self-sustaining acceleration while strengthening. Separately, Burtsev derives conditions under which amplification can precede visible acceleration.
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- model estimate · economic modelling, derivation
- Conclusion
- estimated (not a grade)
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- Hapax Research Lab source review; no independent replication claimed.
- Scope
- Specified economic models and their assumptions; not an observation of a deployed threshold crossing.
- Modelled feedback in AI research ↗Version 1 abstract; calibration of feedback dynamics.
- Recursive reproduction and acceleration ↗Version 1; theoretical conditions for amplification.
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Cunningham and colleagues’ calibration suggests current feedback is below self-sustaining acceleration while strengthening. Separately, Burtsev derives conditions under which amplification can precede visible acceleration.
The source’s own wording marks this conclusion as a back-of-the-envelope calculation (arXiv 2609.15802v1, abstract), and the original statement dropped that marker.
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