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Comment by kburman

9 hours ago

> a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and dozens

what makes this state of the art?

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rvnx  6 hours ago

It's just marketing.

It is not a protected term, so anything is state-of-the-art if you want it to be.

For example, Gemma models at the moment of release were performing worse their competition, but still, it is "state-of-the-art". It does not mean it's a bad product at all (Gemma is actually good), but the claims are very free.

Juicero was state-of-the-art on release too, though hands were better, etc.

  • lo_zamoyski  5 hours ago

    > It's just marketing. [...] It is not a protected term, so anything is state-of-the-art if you want it to be.

    But is it true?

    I think we ought to stop indulging and rationalizing self-serving bullshit with the "it's just marketing" bit, as if that somehow makes bullshit okay. It's not okay. Normalizing bullshit is culturally destructive and reinforces the existing indifference to truth.

    Part of the motivation people have seems to be a cowardly morbid fear of conflict or the acknowledgment that the world is a mess. But I'm not even suggesting conflict. I'm suggesting demoting the dignity of bullshitters in one's own estimation of them. A bullshitter should appear trashy to us, because bullshitting is trashy.

7moritz7  8 hours ago

The scale. How many tools do you know that can query the content of all arxiv papers.

  • eamag  1 hour ago

    Doesn't look like the scale is there, even for HN:

    > Currently have embedded: posts: 1.4M / 4.6M comments: 15.6M / 38M That's with Voyage-3.5-lite