THE MECHANISM

Test-time compute, open problems, and research judgment

03Reasoning proposes structure
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04Control protects timing
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05Evidence beats demo charisma
FAILURE → REPAIR
Common trap

“More test-time thinking always improves a robot.”

Better model

Reasoning can add latency, hallucinated subgoals, and extra failure surfaces. It must earn its place through measured task success.

YOUR NEXT GATE

Audit one frontier claim

  1. 1Pick a recent robot demo.
  2. 2Write the claimed capability in one falsifiable sentence.
  3. 3Record the evaluation distribution and trial count.