The Minutes of Gavin Baker on scaling laws https://minutesof.com/gavin-baker/on/scaling-laws/ Everything Gavin Baker has said on scaling laws: 2 verbatim quotes between August 2024 and December 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:21:42 +0000 Baker says no one on earth knows how or why scaling laws for pre-training work, it's an empirical observation. https://minutesof.com/q/8eb07bfe-01aa-40a9-857d-dcf1bcbe4688/ https://minutesof.com/q/8eb07bfe-01aa-40a9-857d-dcf1bcbe4688/ “And that's important because no one on planet earth knows how or why scaling laws for pre training work. It's actually not a law.” — Invest Like the Best Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:05:00 +0000 scaling laws Baker claims tech founders believe creating AGI first is worth tens or hundreds of trillions. https://minutesof.com/q/70bba597-1fd8-43fc-82e2-840df2b61146/ https://minutesof.com/q/70bba597-1fd8-43fc-82e2-840df2b61146/ “And if you create that first digital god, we can debate whether it's tens of trillions or hundreds of trillions in value, and we can debate whether or not that's ridiculous.” — Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000 scaling laws