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matthewh806yesterday at 5:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

I presume that's what the parent post is trying to get at? Seeing if, given the cutting edge scientific knowledge of the day, the LLM is able to synthesis all it into a workable theory of QM by making the necessary connections and (quantum...) leaps

Standing on the shoulders of giants, as it were


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palmoteayesterday at 6:37 PM

But that's not the OP's challenge, he said "if the model comes up with anything even remotely correct." The point is there were things already "remotely correct" out there in 1900. If the LLM finds them, it wouldn't "be quite a strong evidence that LLMs are a path to something bigger."

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actionfromafaryesterday at 5:37 PM

Yeah but... we still might not know if it could do that because we were really close by 1900 or if the LLM is very smart.

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