unhobbling

Verb

unhobble (third-person singular simple present unhobbles, present participle unhobbling, simple past and past participle unhobbled)

1. (transitive) To remove hobbles from (a horse).
2. (figuratively, transitive) To unhinder, remove obstacles.
   • (It also highlights the central role of algorithmic progress: the ~0.5 OOMs/year of compute efficiencies, already significant, are only part of the story, and put together with unhobbling algorithmic progress overall is maybe even a majority of the gains on the current trend.)2024, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness, page 32