> Surely SamA doesn’t actually think that they’ll more than 20x their compute in a few years?

He does, or at least, he believes if its plausible they should attempt to.

We live in odd times. It sort of reminds me of Feb 2020. All you really needed to know was the Rt and rest was just math. Who knows if it'll matter or pencil out in a decade, but, it's completely reasonable at these growth rates and with the iron laws known to keep scaling.