OpenAI Publishes Its RSI Numbers, Astra on Low Beats Sol on High & a PR Review Toolkit

OpenAI spent Sunday talking about recursive self-improvement. Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki's essay An Alien Mind says internal results give him a strong expectation that progress can be sustained into RSI, that chain-of-thought monitoring is becoming progressively less reliable on the Astra class, and that OpenAI will unilaterally withhold scaling if needed while calling for mandated safety bars. The companion data post is the more concrete document: the median OpenAI researcher now burns over $600 a day of inference at API prices, the 90th percentile over $7,000, the research org runs 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and a July 20 inf