Experience well-being and household income seem to follow a logarithmic curve. This is unexpected to me! https://i.imgur.com/4cMP5vs.jpg

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Common myth - the log increase signifies diminishing bounded returns, some fairly-low good enough point.

Reality - this data indicates UNBOUNDED happiness returns vs increasing wealth, all else equal.

So what does the log part signify then? = Simply that returns  percentage-relative, not absolute-value-relative.

^^ Funny, just noticed that original Neural Scaling Laws paper makes this same bad-intuition mistake!

"though performance must flatten out before reaching zero loss"

Well, here, "reaching zero loss" = "reaching infinite skill".

So no, no math reason why curve must ever flatten out, bc infinity can't ever be reached!

Same idea with the mind blowing scaling law curves seen with large language model AI.

Why mind blowing? 

Those curves strongly imply unbounded intelligence potential.

Not human-level-bounded maximum intelligence bounds, as people instinctively assume.

Incredible. https://i.imgur.com/YlYpIqh.png

I wouldn't call it happiness, wellbeing is more accurate. One problem at the top is that it will muddle the cause and effect. It's really hard to get to the top if life throws obstacles your way such as health issues or serious family problems. Wellbeing is a prerequisite to built a unicorn company.