Comment by quietbritishjim
Comment by quietbritishjim 2 hours ago
How many articles on this topic do we imagine there are? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? It is hopeless to read every one by any author, no matter how unrelated to the domain, and judge them individually on their merits. Being a subject domain expert is not a perfect measure of paper quality but it's the only feasible way to make a first pass at filtering.
Even if I did read it, I have no hope of understanding if it has made a fundamental mistake because I don't have the subject matter expertise either.
(I imagine it has made a fundamental mistake anyway: for LLMs to be useful progress toward AGI they don't have to be a feasible way to create AGI by themselves. Innovation very often involves stepping through technologies that end up only being a component of the final solution, or inspiration for the final solution. This was always going to be an issue with trying to prove a negative.)
> It is hopeless to read every one by any author,
It was a paper posted on HN a few days ago and someone asked for the evidence of my statement. I supplied it.
Now if they actually read it and disagreed with what it was saying, I'd be more than happy to continue the conversation.
Dismissing it just because you don't understand is a terrible thing to do to yourself. It's basically sabotaging your intelligence.
Sometimes papers are garbage, but you can only make that statement after you have read/understood it.
Use an LLM if you want.