A razor is a philosophical tool to help decide between options, in the case of Occam it’s a way to decide for something in a situation where multiple options have more or less the same level of plausibility to en your current knowledge. It’s a heuristic to make a “cut”. What are you shaving off?
replyOP is using the expression correctly.
reply> Ocham's razor(...) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.
> Popularly, the principle is sometimes paraphrased as "of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred".
The options are some complicated narrative that leads the company to hold back certain capabilities due to some mercurial strategy or this is a typical release and there is no hidden strategy to decipher.
replyThe "pacing the frontier" claims that they are slowing down intentionally?
replyOh, you’re saying they were responding to the GP? Not their parent comment? Ok, yeah, makes more sense
replyI am responding negatively to parent, which claims they are self-pacing, when the simplest explanation is that they just have nothing substantial to show.
reply> Occam's razor: they couldn't make any more substantial improvements.
replydoesn't sound like a razor at all
Everyone knows both labs have internal models which outperform the frontier. All releases are to match market parity and demand for spend, the rest of the compute is used for training. It's not worth arguing about this.
replyMaybe their internal edge dried up in the last months
replythen technically the internal models are the frontier
replyAre those powerful models in the room with us right now?
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