Wasn't the exponential increase in data and compute always part of the scaling hypothesis? That's my memory of it from reading [1] years ago. Most of the field

Wasn't the exponential increase in data and compute always part of the scaling hypothesis? That's my memory of it from reading [1] years ago. Most of the field thought scaling would hurt, openai thought you'd get logarithmic benefit from it, and openai won that bet. 1: https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis