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Is that kind of argument something like where you count the number of cranks claiming P=NP and the number of cranks claiming P!=NP and then if you get 95% paper
by luke5441 1mo ago
Is that kind of argument something like where you count the number of cranks claiming P=NP and the number of cranks claiming P!=NP and then if you get 95% papers claiming P!=NP that one wins?
- dvt 1mo agoWhat? Not at all. I'm referring to things like discussing distributions of certain things or probabilities of things as we go towards infinity, etc. These are proper papers, not surveys.
- luke5441 1mo agoBut if a LLM writes such a paper, how do you know there aren't any issues in it that cause wrong probabilities/distributions?
- dvt 1mo agoYou don't, that's why you review it (just how you would handle a real human submitting a paper). The main issue with LLM papers is that they tend to be very dense/circuitous or—because LLMs don't truly understand what they're doing—have the wrong focus. An LLM might spend pages on a trivial result, but quickly gloss over a truly remarkable finding. Terry Tao talks about this challenge in some of his blog posts and interviews, it's pretty interesting.
- luke5441 1mo agoThat was adamddev1s point. It's a unreliable tool. You cannot copy & paste its results into a paper as proof. You could do this with e.g. Lean. To review what it writes you need to understand the topic to such an extend that you could have written it yourself (at least that is how it is for me when I review code). Yes, for inspiration or search they are great tools.
- coldtea 1mo ago>You don't, that's why you review it Review enough of those without doing the proving yourself, and you'll soon lose the ability to review. And have LLMs do the course work for you at math school, and you might never acquire such ability to begin with anyway.