Skip to content

layer 3 · theory

principle P3 · the organism and its metabolism

Fungible cognition

type: capacity or tendency, other things being equal · developed in companion §3

Model quality, thinking time, and thinking speed substitute for one another, so a lineage’s budget buys its intelligence.

What a test would record: matched-compute trade-offs

Evidence in the register

No case in the register bears on P3 yet.

Works it draws on

From the library: works the papers use for P3.

Concluding RemarksHutchinson 1957
Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model ParametersSnell et al. 2024