Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024 You can see the future first in San Francisco. Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to
You know for a blog that’s on its face about computational complexity, you’d think Scott would show a little more skepticism to the tech bro saying “all we need is 14 quintillion x compute to solve the Riemann hypothesis”
Scott Aaronson says that Aschenbrenner displays “unusual clarity, concreteness, and seriousness”.
That’s it, that’s the joke
You know for a blog that’s on its face about computational complexity, you’d think Scott would show a little more skepticism to the tech bro saying “all we need is 14 quintillion x compute to solve the Riemann hypothesis”