It doesn't even look like 4o is scaled up parameter wise from 4 and was released closer in time than either 3 or 4 were from their predecessors at a time where the scaling required for these next gen iterations has only gotten more difficult.
Critical thinking ? Lol it's just blind speculation.
If you disagree with their reasoning then you explain that.
You don't do this passive aggressive "source???" thing.
It's a bit like starting a Slack conversation with "Hi?": we all know you have a secondary objective, but now you're inserting an extra turn of phrase into the mix
Not everyone keeps up with LLM development enough to know how far apart the release dates for these models are, how much scaling (roughly) has been done on each iteration and a decent ballpark for how much open ai might try to scale up a next gen model.
To me, OP's speculation reads as obvious nonsense but that might not be the case for everybody. Asking for sources or such to what is entirely speculation is perfectly valid and personally, that comment does not ring as passive aggressive to me but maybe it's just me.
Just because someone doesn't know enough to refute the reasoning doesn't mean they must take whatever they read at face value.
If we're making this about the innocent bystanders now, that's all the more reason to be direct and say "I disagree." rather than indirectly expressing negative feelings (aka being passive aggressive) and asking for a source.
If anything just breezily asking for a source would imply to people who don't know better that this is a rather even keeled take and just needs some more evidence on top. "I disagree and here's why" nips that in the bud directly.
How is "I disagree" any more direct than "I've not heard anything like this. any source that would point at that?" Moreover who's to say this person even disagrees? Personally i don't always ask for them because of a disagreement.
I think the hanging point seems to be that you found the comment passive aggressive but i genuinely didn't.
Right, that's what makes this rabbit hole a bit wild. I'm not even expressing a disagreement, rhetorical or otherwise. What's more, there's nothing wrong with doing that either. There are circumstances where that's a perfectly appropriate thing to do.
And while I fully agree there absolutely is such a thing as smarmy commenters asking for sources in cases where it's misunderstanding something fundamental about the conversation (e.g. "Shakespeare is good", "oh really? source?!") or frivolous requests for factual information familiar to everyone ("global temperatures are rising? Source!?"), I don't know how someone could read this subthread and feel that my question falls into either of those categories.
And to use this of all things as a moment to die on the hill of advocating for fuzzy boundaries between speculation and fact, which absolutely is something that facilitates misinformation, and to be angry that such a thing would be interpreted as a favorable attitude toward misinformation, is completely baffling.
Critical thinking ? Lol it's just blind speculation.