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aspenmartinyesterday at 1:19 PM1 replyview on HN

N isn’t small, science means what it’s always meant, statistics is a thing, and what you’re describing is just putting your trust in a very poor quality benchmark. You said you would not trust any data that indicates something that contradicts your opinion. Benchmarks are not PR they are designed by a variety of institutions completely outside the control of frontier labs. Again congratulations on your conspiracy theory.


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OtomotOyesterday at 3:30 PM

> Again congratulations on your conspiracy theory.

I am neither impressed nor offended by any kind of argumentum ad hominem. I sincerely hope you have a wonderful day!

> Benchmarks are not PR they are designed by a variety of institutions completely outside the control of frontier labs.

I don't give a crap about how good a shovel may be in a theoretical experiment when it's digging in sand, when I work with hard earth.

The ones I had a look at are mostly absolutely meaningless to my actual work.

> and what you’re describing is just putting your trust in a very poor quality benchmark.

And here is where we disagree fundamentally, so we can leave it at that.

Ex falso quodlibet

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