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Comment by Barbing

16 hours ago

Surprised to see snark re: what I thought was a standard practice (linking FAQs, essentially).

I hadn’t seen the post. It was relevant. I just read it. Lucky Ten Thousand can read it next time even though I won’t.

Simon has never seemed annoying so unlike other comments that might worry me (even “Opus made this” even though it’s cool but I’m concerned someone astroturfed), that comment would’ve never raised my eyebrows. He’s also dedicated and I love he devotes his time to a new field like this where it’s great to have attempts at benchmarks, folks cutting through chaff, etc.

The specific 'question' is a promise to catch training on more publicly available data, and to expect more blog links copied 'into dozens of different conversations'... Jump for joy. Stop the presses. Oops, snarky again :)

Yes, the LLM people will train on this. They will train on absolutely everything [as they have]. The comments/links prioritize engagement over awareness. My point, I suppose, if I had one is that this blogosphere can add to the chaff. I'm glad to see Simon here often/interested.

Aside: all this concern about over-fitting just reinforces my belief these things won't take the profession any time soon. Maybe the job.