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Unreasonable effectiveness of [blah] has been a thing for decades if not centuries. It's not new.
by throwaway314155 1y ago
Unreasonable effectiveness of [blah] has been a thing for decades if not centuries. It's not new.
- temp0826 1y agoIt's an older version of "x hates this one weird trick!"
- ayrtondesozzla 1y agoIt is not at all, it's being misused here to make it feel like that. Wigner's essay is about how the success of mathematics in being applied to physics, sometimes years after the maths and very unexpectedly, is philosophically troubling - it is unreasonably effective. Whereas this blog post is about how LLM agents with tools are "good". So it was not just a catchy title, although yes, maybe it is now beibg reduced to that.