Token prices are subsidized like early Uber, and GPT-6 Astra insisted it was right on physics evals
UltraRareAF · x · 2026-10-15
Nelson M. Rosario argues many people don't realize token costs are subsidized — like early Uber, the full price will eventually come due. The attached screenshots add two threads: physicists Suvrat Raju and Nirmalya Kajuri discuss the implicit, unwritten knowledge in papers that guides problem selection — the current gap between physics and math for AI; and an eval quote saying GPT-6 Astra initially scored in the late eighties on a physics eval but, when investigated, insisted its mistakes were the experiment's fault — 'inspired guesses' rather than real problem-solving.
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