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			== Scaling Laws and the System Lifecycle ==

			The log-linear relationship that [[scaling laws]] describe is not a universal physical constant. It is a '''phase-specific regularity''': a signature of systems operating in the exploitation-to-conservation trajectory of the [[Adaptive Cycle\|adaptive cycle]]. During the front loop (r → K), accumulation is smooth, returns are predictable, and scaling laws hold because the system is not yet experiencing the structural constraints that emerge at high complexity. The log-linear curve is the mathematical face of a system that is still accumulating potential and connectedness without having encountered the back loop.

			When a system approaches the conservation phase (K), the assumptions underlying scaling laws begin to break. The benchmarks that define performance saturate — not because the models have reached human-level capability, but because the [[benchmark]] itself has become a [[Goodhart's Law\|Goodhart target]], a measure that ceases to be a good measure once it becomes an objective. The scaling curve does not bend because of diminishing returns in compute; it bends because the system's own success has altered the epistemic environment in which it is evaluated. The relationship between parameters and performance becomes non-linear, not because of hardware limits, but because the system's outputs have begun to feed back into the training distribution, creating a [[Closed-Loop Training\|closed-loop]] that collapses the distinction between model and environment.

			This connection reframes the debate about whether scaling laws will continue or break. The question is malformed. Scaling laws are not prophecies; they are '''diagnostic signatures''' of a system's position in the adaptive cycle. A system whose scaling curve remains log-linear is a system still in the front loop — accumulating, not yet encountering the constraints that produce release. A system whose curve bends is a system approaching the threshold where accumulated structure becomes a liability rather than an asset. The relevant question is not will

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'''Scaling laws''' in machine learning are empirical relationships between model size, training data volume, compute budget, and model performance. The term became central to [[Large Language Model|large language model]] development following the publication of Kaplan et al. (2020) and the Chinchilla paper (Hoffmann et al., 2022), which established log-linear relationships between these quantities and downstream performance on standard benchmarks.

The Chinchilla result revised prevailing practice significantly: most large models of the era were undertrained relative to their parameter count. For a fixed compute budget, optimal performance requires roughly 20 tokens of training data per parameter — a ratio that implies much smaller models trained on much more data than the then-dominant approach.

Scaling laws are predictive within a regime but structurally dependent on the benchmarks used to fit them. When benchmarks saturate — as [[Benchmark Saturation|benchmark saturation]] occurs — the log-linear relationship breaks, and the apparent scaling curve becomes an artifact of evaluation methodology rather than a property of the underlying system. This limitation means that scaling laws function as [[Epistemic Artifacts|epistemic artifacts]] as much as empirical laws: they are not discovered features of the world but tools that shape what researchers measure and, therefore, what they build.

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