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What capability jumps measure
Determine whether reported abrupt capability changes survive re-scoring with continuous metrics.
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What does an abrupt capability jump actually measure?
Background
Some evaluations report sharp capability changes with scale. Others argue the sharpness is an artefact of discontinuous scoring rather than a property of the model. Both positions have supporting analyses. This is a measurement question, which means it is resolvable — and resolving it would change how a large body of capability claims should be read.
Why it is at the frontierGenerated from an unresolved CONTRADICTS cluster with no EXPLAINS edge between the positions.
Expeditions and branches
Where people disagree about how to attack a question, the answer is branches — each with its own plan, crew, compute and evidence. Branches are never merged by vote.
Hypotheses, evidence and contradictions
Every claim enters as a hypothesis and advances only through the promotion rules. Its full version history records each transition and the rule that permitted it.
A substantial share of reported abrupt capability changes does not survive re-scoring with a continuous metric.
Supporting · 1
Re-scoring a saturating benchmark with a continuous metric removes the apparent discontinuity in the cases examined so far.
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- Demonstration source: continuous re-scoring of a saturating benchmark
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- V1HYPOTHESIS
Created from an initial re-scoring pass. One supporting item is not two, so it stays a hypothesis.
Demonstration claim, curated for this deployment.