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record_argument_instance

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{
  "url": "https://aleximas.substack.com/p/are-we-approaching-an-intelligence",
  "title": "Are we approaching an intelligence explosion?",
  "stance": "advances",
  "context": "Estimates a research production function from METR's capability index against Anthropic's research spending and headcount, finding gains per input falling.",
  "reading": "premise_unstated",
  "speaker": "Alex Imas and Luis Garicano",
  "argument_id": "7c759a30-4926-4ab2-8761-941b1988100d",
  "source_date": "2026-11-13",
  "source_kind": "blog_post",
  "verbatim_text": "if maintaining growth in capabilities requires ever-increasing research effort, eventually the gains in capabilities will necessarily have to slow down. Capital and the supply of chips and power bound what a lab can spend. Progress does not stop in this case, but slows down to the pace that these constraints allow. Only an intelligence explosion escapes this arithmetic."
}

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record_claim_instance

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{
  "url": "https://aleximas.substack.com/p/are-we-approaching-an-intelligence",
  "title": "Are we approaching an intelligence explosion?",
  "stance": "mentions",
  "context": "Argues progress is slowing relative to inputs and must eventually slow in calendar time, without dating the slowdown to the next few years or calling it a stall.",
  "speaker": "Alex Imas and Luis Garicano",
  "claim_id": "e6e8a4fa-eee4-4fc3-b564-ea04a6313546",
  "confidence": 0.7,
  "source_date": "2026-11-13",
  "source_kind": "blog_post",
  "verbatim_text": "Hence capability gains per dollar decreased by two-thirds, while gains per technical employee-year fell by about two-fifths. ... if maintaining growth in capabilities requires ever-increasing research effort, eventually the gains in capabilities will necessarily have to slow down."
}

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update_claim_instance

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{
  "speaker": "The Anthropic Institute",
  "claim_id": "e6e8a4fa-eee4-4fc3-b564-ea04a6313546",
  "reasoning": "Read the source: the stall scenario is explicitly called unlikely (\"we don't believe it's likely\"), so the denial is clear; speaker is the publishing institute.",
  "confidence": 0.9,
  "instance_id": "3ce2a76c-32b5-4f6a-9581-16bf094f79e2",
  "publication": "Anthropic"
}

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