Ben Todd
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Ben Todd is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 26, 2024 and April 08, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Ben Todd tried to reproduce my calculations about GPT-6”; “well-covered in Ben Todd’s How quickly could robots scale up?“. It most often appears alongside 1960s sci-fi, ACX, AI 2027.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 26, 2024
- Last seen: April 08, 2025
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3: Ben Todd tried to reproduce my calculations about GPT-6 and found it will only take 0.1% of the world’s computers to train, not 10%. I haven’t double-checked his work or figure out where we disagree, but it sounds like a more reasonable (though still immense) estimate.
Inline links: tried to reproduce my calculations about GPT-6
Most of this - plus the final calculations about exactly how many robots this implies getting manufactured when - is well-covered in Ben Todd’s How quickly could robots scale up?
Inline links: How quickly could robots scale up?