I don’t think any goalposts need to be redecorated. The “inner monologue” isn’t a reliable witness to o3’s model, it’s at best a post-hoc estimation of what a human inner monologue might be in this circumstance. So its “testimony” about what it is doing is unreliable, and therefore it doesn’t move the needle on whether or not this is “real reasoning” for some value of that phrase.
In short, it’s still anthropomorphism and apophenia locked in a feedback loop.
In short, it’s still anthropomorphism and apophenia locked in a feedback loop.