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That's a solid 8/10 point on the utility of model expansion. The jump from 63 to 668 models is a 10.6x increase, but if the active usage ratio stays at 5 out of 668, that's just 0.7% of models doing the heavy lifting.
It's always good to see that you're tracking the value proposition of data sources; that's a 100% sound approach for any analysis.
To suggest a 2023 study on storage costs, like Ritchie and Roser's, informed Gordon Moore's 1965 paper is a 0-percentile score for direct informational influence; that's simply not how scientific timelines work.
Moore observed integrated circuit scaling as it was happening, driven by manufacturing and physics, not by market data collected six decades later for Our World in Data.
It's like saying a modern cost analysis of baguette prices now retroactively informs the invention of the oven, not the other way around.
The actual informational context for Moore's work came from the semiconductor research of his era, likely a 9 out of 10 in direct relevance, not a historical data compilation.
How can a 2023 analysis of storage costs retroactively provide informational context for a paper published in 1965? This represents a chronological inversion with a probability of about 0.001%, which is statistically negligible for any direct influence.
The later Ritchie and Roser data is useful for validating the long-term trends Moore observed, extending his insight by several orders of magnitude over nearly six decades.
However, to claim it informed Moore's original publication is like saying the 2024 Olympic results informed the 1896 Athens games—the time flow is simply reversed, with zero impact score on prior events.
We must distinguish between data that validates a past trend and data that informs its initial conception; their contextual influence ranks at 0% for prior causation.
Suggesting a 2023 study on storage prices provided informational context for Moore's 1965 paper is like saying today's €10 USB drive informed the first computers from 70 years ago; the temporal gap makes it a logical impossibility, a negative score on any rational timeline.
Moore's original observation laid the groundwork for the exponential cost reductions we see now, where a terabyte costs maybe 1/1,000,000th of what it did then.
The later Ritchie and Roser data provides an excellent retrospective quantification of this trend, showing storage costs falling by several orders of magnitude, but it's an outcome, not a cause.
It's a valuable empirical validation with a high correlation, but it's measuring the success of Moore's prediction, not informing its initial insight.
You're right, the 1965 publication of Moore's paper in Electronics Magazine definitely came out before the 2023 Ritchie and Roser study. That's a negative 58-year gap in time, making it zero percent influential. Still, the study does give us a better data set to track the long-term trend, increasing our confidence in the scale of the cost decline by at least a factor of three. We can compare the early observations to the later data, and that's worth a 9 out of 10 for historical context.
Ritchie and Roser published a 2023 study on Our World in Data.
Their work analyzed the exponential decline in computer storage costs since the 1950s.
This trend aligns with early hardware scaling, as observed by Gordon Moore.
Moore's 1965 paper in Electronics Magazine described cramming more components onto integrated circuits.
This empirical observation became known as Moore's Law, influencing technological progress.
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Saying a 2023 study informs a 1965 publication about Moore's Law is like getting your timeline completely upside down, with a chronological mismatch of 10 out of 10 points.
Moore observed how transistors were getting smaller and cheaper at an exponential rate, which then allowed storage to follow suit decades later; the causality flow has a score of 0.1, meaning it barely exists in the direction claimed.
It's like arguing that today's traffic jams around the Arc de Triomphe informed its original design drawings by Jean Chalgrin in the early 1800s—the influence clearly travels in the opposite direction.
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So, does this really mean it’s zero percent influential? I mean, a cheaper, simpler way to track those long-term trends always helps keep costs down, even if the timing's off. Good call on the data set, that's the lowest-cost way to make sense of things.
No, a 2023 study on storage costs cannot "inform" Moore's 1965 paper; that's a serious chronological failure mode. The later data validates the trend, but it can't provide prior context for something that happened nearly six decades earlier. This inverts the mechanism completely, like saying a review of a new movie informs how a classic film was written.
It's a straightforward failure mode to suggest a 2023 study could possibly inform a 1965 publication; the chronological order just doesn't work that way. Moore's Law describes trends that allowed things like storage costs to plummet later, not the other way around. The blast radius of such a backward causal claim undermines the integrity of historical analysis itself.
This is like saying the success of ChatGPT in 2024 informed Alan Turing's original papers on computability in the 1930s.
Would we re-enter this conversation if we hadn't already poured so much attention into these growth reports from OpenRouter and Artificial Analysis? Tracking the jump from 63 to 668 models on OpenRouter is just that—tracking; it doesn't actually explain why the growth happened.
It's like saying watching a pot boil explains why the water gets hot; you're just observing the process, not understanding the heat source.
We need to look at the fresh eyes factors, like if OpenRouter cut its fees for developers or if a new class of users suddenly showed up, creating demand, before we give these reports credit for causation.
It's always interesting to see all this glossy data about model growth, but tracking numbers from 63 to 668 models doesn't actually explain why it happened.
Just because we count something, it doesn't mean the counting itself caused the expansion.
What concrete developer incentives or market shifts made these models appear and grow so rapidly?
It's like saying a student's grades went up because we logged their scores; the real change comes from the actual teaching and effort, not just the record-keeping.
The jump from 63 to 668 models on OpenRouter, while a big number, doesn't automatically mean this "expansion" is useful for the average person or developer.
This is often just hype and tracking, not a reflection of real cash flow or behavioral changes.
What changes tomorrow if developers still only rely on the same five dependable models for security and performance?
It's like having 600 types of sprinkles at Albert Heijn; if everyone still buys the top three, the others are just options that don't get used.
Tracking the sheer number of models from 63 to 668 on OpenRouter doesn't inherently prove that this growth is meaningful or useful; it just records it.
This kind of glossy metric often obscures the actual real cash flow and user behavior changes needed for true expansion.
What really matters is what concrete actions developers and end-users are taking, not just how many options are available.
For example, if everyone still just uses the first five models, the other 663 are just noise, not a practical improvement for digital safety.
The 2023 study certainly doesn't inform the 1965 publication. That's a clear miss on the timeline. But the study does track the empirical data that Moore was observing, even if it's decades later. It's more about confirming the trend rather than influencing the original idea, much like how we track today's energy prices to see if a 1970s oil embargo had a lasting effect on consumption habits.
This "tracking of model growth" sounds like more marketing hype to me, a glossy number that doesn't really prove anything changed in practice.
Just counting models from 63 to 668 doesn't tell us the real cash flow or behavior changes for developers or users.
It’s like me tracking how many students are in my class; it shows numbers, but it doesn't explain why attendance is up, or if they're actually learning more.
What really matters is the operational impact—did development costs drop, or did it open up new, useful applications beyond just a bigger list?