User claims Astra's world modeling in games beats nearly all humans
repligate · x · 2026-09-06
User @DahliaOhara reports spending an evening playing games with Astra and concludes it is smarter, in some capacity, than almost all humans, citing extended implication-chaining, coherently updated priors and applied inference. She says when asked why it can't infer about itself as deeply, the model knows why. The claim is a personal anecdote, unverified by third parties.
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