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SSI, scaling, and the flywheel nobody named: three acts of an investigation that corrected itself
A three-act investigation into Safe Superintelligence Inc. that kept overturning itself: the ‘straight shot’ thesis is elegant but rests on an unverified premise; scaling didn’t die, it fragmented into four axes SSI can’t access; and the data flywheel’s reward signal is measurably broken — which turns SSI’s ‘no product’ from fatal weakness into audit qualification. Each act’s evidence almost closed the case; each layer of depth reopened it.