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The PhD Metagame: Don't Make Things Actually Work (maxwellforbes.com)
8 points by teleforce 26 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> all of your work would now be irrelevant

Wouldn't prior papers be cited as known avenues to rule out? The older papers would turn up in searches.

With AI, are we no longer reverse-engineering the learning model to retrieve specific heuristics?

It may conserve power to convert the simulated solution from the prompt to a set of analytic calculations, maybe.




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