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The same incentive there always was: Because you wanna know. What incentive were you thinking of?
by Toynbeeidea 22d ago
The same incentive there always was: Because you wanna know. What incentive were you thinking of?
- kccqzy 21d agoThe usual incentives in academia: publishing papers. Consider the difference between publishing a paper that introduces a novel method to do X, versus publishing a paper that merely interprets Claude’s method to do X. The latter might not even be publishable.
- vatsachak 21d agoThat means that academia is outdated not that LLM math is bad
- kccqzy 21d agoOkay so you are saying the old incentive structure is outdated. What is the new incentive structure in the LLM era? What exactly makes people want to understand LLM-produced math?
- vatsachak 21d agoI actually read through a bunch of LLM slop on the weekends trying to catch white whales I couldn't during my math PhD. The incentive is solving the problem and understanding the solution.