What Happened With Bio Anchors?

<p>[Original post: <a href= "https://readscottalexander.com/posts/acx-biological-anchors-a-trick-that-might"> Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work</a>]</p> <p>I.</p> <p>Ajeya Cotra's <a href= "https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/15ArhEPZSTYU8f012bs6ehPS6-xmhtBPP"> Biological Anchors</a> report was the landmark AI timelines forecast of the early 2020s. In many ways, it was incredibly prescient - it nailed the scaling hypothesis, predicted the current AI boom, and introduced concepts like "time horizons" that have entered common parlance. In most cases where its contemporaries challenged it, its assumptions have been borne out, and its challengers …