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Equation 11 · Part 1 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Frontier AI Model Comparisons

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That formula encodes a specific, testable assumption: that pairwise preference between any two systems can be explained by each system’s position on one shared scale, and that preferences are therefore transitive — if raters prefer A to B and B to C , they will prefer A to C . This is a real point of methodological…

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