The gap between chimps and humans is no evidence that a small increase in compute yields an explosion of capability, because evolution was not optimising chimps for technology.

What these subjects mean

scaling laws Whether more compute keeps buying more capability, and where the curve now bends -- pre-training, post-training, test-time.

evolutionary biology Natural selection as an explanation, including the problem of how cooperation survives it.

What Paul Christiano actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

Cannot both be true

Intelligence is going to scale by exactly one thing, and that thing is compute.

Huang says intelligence scales by exactly one thing and that thing is compute. Christiano says the gap between chimps and humans is no evidence that a small increase in compute yields an explosion of capability — which is the intuition the compute-only story leans on when it is asked why more of it should be transformative rather than incremental.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.