Plain Strata: Counterfactual Verification, Would the Discovery Have Happened Anyway
An AI research agent runs for days and comes back with a database query that is genuinely faster than the best published one, and every instrument this field owns for checking that work, re-running it yourself, leaving a window open in which anyone can post money and dispute it, demanding a small mathematical receipt that the stated computation was carried out, or asking the chip to vouch for the sealed region of memory it ran inside, checks the same thing: whether the work was performed the way it was claimed. None of them can touch the claim that actually matters when strangers are being…
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