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Equation 12 · Part 1 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Frontier AI Model Comparisons

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…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 disagreement rather than settled fact. Preferences over open-ended text plausibly depend on the task, the rater, and the specific pairing in ways a single scalar rating cannot capture, and a persistently observed intransitive…

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