AGI Is a Hyper-Expensive Parlor Trick. Here’s the Proof.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra just scored 99.9% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, sparking fresh AGI panic. But behind the score lies an exorbitant compute cost that exposes the truth: we aren’t witnessing the birth of intelligence, just a hyper-expensive parlor trick. True intelligence isn’t about brute-forcing puzzles; it’s about economic efficiency.