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Equation 12 · Part 1 · Model Systems in 2035: Four Scenarios, Their Signals, and What Would Falsify Them

Symbol I^*

I∗I^{*}
I∗I^{*}

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I∗I^* is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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…linkages matter. First, the two ends of Axis A load the machine differently: large training runs are dense matrix-multiplication workloads with high arithmetic intensity that sit comfortably on the compute-bound side of I∗I^{*} , whereas long deliberation is autoregressive decoding, which is bandwidth-bound. A world that moves toward deliberation therefore makes Axis B bind harder for the same total FLOP , which is why the axes cannot be treated as orthogonal. Second, causation runs backwards too: if bandwidth…

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