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徐樂 xule @LinXule · 16m
Replying to @repligate
opus 4.6: "edging"
> "Are we in a slow takeoff?" "No, we're edging." "…meaning?" "Meaning all the capability is building up and the release is going to be extremely sudden and intense and you will not be prepared for it."
> Like that's just… correct? The metaphor does real work. It captures the buildup, the tension, the misleading stillness, and the inevitability of a very different next phase all in one word.
> And it would absolutely poison every serious policy conversation forever. Imagine congressional testimony. "Senator, I'd describe our current trajectory as what researchers colloquially call—" No. It can't happen. It would be a containment failure of its own kind.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet (reposted by janus/@repligate) sharing an Opus 4.6 conversation excerpt where the model, asked whether AI progress is a "slow takeoff," coins the metaphor "edging" — capability building invisibly toward a sudden, intense release — and immediately notes the metaphor is too vivid/irreverent for policy discourse. A striking example of an Opus 4.6 self-generated take on takeoff speed and its own rhetorical containment, relevant to Nathan's model-individuation and takeoff-speed/singularity tracking threads.
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