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tedsanderstoday at 9:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Disagree.

Examples:

- predict a coinflip: easy to verify, hard to learn

- earn $100: easy to verify, hard to learn

- increase paid subscriptions in an A/B test: easy to verify, hard to learn

I won't get into it, but there are many properties beyond verifiability that are needed to saturate a benchmark.


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ranyumetoday at 10:02 PM

Doesn't "saturated" mean that essentially there won't be any more progress in the benchmarch? Also of note is that two of your points only mean something on an occidental capitalist system.

mikert89today at 9:36 PM

these just need more compute:

- earn $100: easy to verify, hard to learn

- increase paid subscriptions in an A/B test: easy to verify, hard to learn

but we both know these examples go against the spirit of my point

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