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YeGoblynQueenneyesterday at 10:38 PM1 replyview on HN

I mean we have no idea what happened exactly, how Fable was used, how many times it was run, whether earlier models were also tried, what was the prompt, how long it run for, etc etc. All we have to go by is a tweet.

Why not be skeptical about that?


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CamperBob2today at 12:38 AM

What you're asking for is exactly the sort of thing that belongs in, and will appear in, a journal article. There will likely be a preprint on arxiv, so you might keep an eye out for that.

In any case, the fact that it was found by a commercial model means that the unfiltered reasoning trace isn't available even to the original author. So there are aspects of the problem-solving process we'll never see. Even if we did get access to the reasoning trace it wouldn't necessarily be definitive, given how these things work.

Hopefully it'll be possible to get the same solution from an open-weight model like one of the 3T heavyweights that are said to be coming up for release. If so, the chain of thought can be scrutinized in-depth.

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