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cmayesterday at 12:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not all of it would translate, but robotic surgery could be done on anesthetized animals in a mass RLVR way.


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sm0radyesterday at 1:10 PM

This is wrong, both morally and technically.

First off, I can’t imagine anything more torment nexus-y than throwing billions to automate and scale the torture of animals. If each token is a “cut”, how much suffering does 10 trillion training tokens (lower bound) corresponds to?

Second, this still doesn’t cover all the properties that make math proofs doable. It requires working in the physical world. You must physically capture or grow 10T cuts worth of animals. You cannot verify success so easily, either. Cancer cells, for example, could regrow over months. You would need to keep the animal alive and regularly test the animal, which would be difficult to scale. And most people wouldn’t trust the world’s greatest vet to operate on them, anyways.

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jebarkeryesterday at 12:57 PM

> robotic surgery could be done on anesthetized animals in a mass RLVR way.

well that's an awful image