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lukevyesterday at 9:32 PM1 replyview on HN

> Is this empirical evidence?

Look, I'm not defending the big labs, I think they're terrible in a lot of ways. And I'm actually suspending judgement on whether there is ~some kind of nerf happening.

But the anecdote you're describing is the definition of non-empirical. It is entirely subjective, based entirely on your experience and personal assessment.


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zsoltkacsandiyesterday at 9:42 PM

> But the anecdote you're describing is the definition of non-empirical. It is entirely subjective, based entirely on your experience and personal assessment.

Well, if we see this way, this is true for Antrophic’s benchmarks as well.

Btw the definition of empirical is: “based on observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic”

So what I described is the exact definition of empirical.