Comment by altmanaltman
2 days ago
"Benchmark is stupid" and "model beats model on benchmark" are two different things, though. The second one is objectively true regardless of your views on the first one, right? To expect everyone to share your opinion that benchmarks are stupid is pretty weird, and just saying "no" to an objective truth is the definition of delusion.
If a benchmark is a measure of nothing useful, then model beats model is an objectively useless fact
But that's the problem with that logic. The author subjectively claims benchmarks are stupid (a debatable opinion) and treats that as inherently true while making the second claim (hence, you shouldn't say model A beat model B).
I can say I find the law stupid, so no one should say person A beat person B in court. But I did not prove the law is stupid; I merely thought it subjectively and demanded others to follow the second part because I believe the first part is true.
Saying that "if the law is useless, court cases are useless" is objectively true and cannot be argued with. But you still need to prove why the law is useless, not why you think it is and even then if people disagree and use the law as a reference, then it's not objectively useless and court cases are not useless as well.