Equation 4 · What We Still Cannot Do: Open Problems in Frontier Model Systems
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There is a second, compounding reason, and it is quantitative. Consider a task decomposed into n dependent steps, each completed correctly with probability q , where an uncaught error propagates. Success over the whole task goes as
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