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AI Timelines - Footnote 4

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The source mentions Ajeya Cotra's report and discusses its contents, but it does not explicitly state that the framework estimates TAI timelines by comparing required computational resources (measured in FLOP) to biological systems. While the report does use biological systems as 'anchors' for estimating computational requirements, the claim oversimplifies the methodology.

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www.lesswrong.com/posts/KrJfoZzpSDpnrv9va/draft-report-on-ai-timelines(1 check)

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Found: Ajeya Cotra's 2020 biological anchors framework estimates TAI timelines by comparing required computational resources (measured in FLOP) to biological systems. The method involves:

Note: The source mentions Ajeya Cotra's report and discusses its contents, but it does not explicitly state that the framework estimates TAI timelines by comparing required computational resources (measured in FLOP) to biological systems. While the report does use biological systems as 'anchors' for estimating computational requirements, the claim oversimplifies the methodology.

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