Replace hard efficiency cap with soft asymptotic curve, allow 10x bra…#88
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…in efficiency The previous model hard-clamped efficiency at 117x (5x brain, 6W floor), stopping all gains around year 5. This was unrealistically abrupt — the actual Landauer limit is ~10^6x below current chips. Now: - Efficiency knee at ~233x (700W / 3W = 10x brain efficiency) - Below the knee: gains are linear (unchanged behavior) - Above the knee: logarithmic diminishing returns — improvements continue but dramatically slower, reflecting practical engineering limits - Efficiency cells stay editable past the knee (no more greying out) - Brain equivalency display shows "DIMINISHING" instead of "AT LIMIT" This means years 6-20 still see meaningful efficiency improvements (maybe 500-700x total over 20 years vs the old hard stop at 117x), which significantly reduces the demand/supply gap in later years. https://claude.ai/code/session_01PHK9qmguUSTyvykAoho467
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…in efficiency
The previous model hard-clamped efficiency at 117x (5x brain, 6W floor), stopping all gains around year 5. This was unrealistically abrupt — the actual Landauer limit is ~10^6x below current chips.
Now:
This means years 6-20 still see meaningful efficiency improvements (maybe 500-700x total over 20 years vs the old hard stop at 117x), which significantly reduces the demand/supply gap in later years.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01PHK9qmguUSTyvykAoho467