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> 32.67% of the successful patches involve cheating as the solutions were directly provided in the issue report or the comments.

Is this what Hofstadter means by a strange-loop?

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Turns out "AI deep research reasoning agent" was just "we can print the training set"

...by piping it through the world's most inefficient echo function.

You should immediately publish a paper on Arvix with your revolutionary IEF brand, an improvement on transformers and mamba architectures. Then, like Ilya, take $1B in funding the following week.

That reminds me of someone calling the Bitcoin blockchain the most expensive linked list in the world.

The difference is that Bitcoin is designed to be "just" an append-only* timestamped linked list, with some rules on how a new node can look like in order to be successfully appended. Making the creation of a canonical linked list possible between hostile actors is the whole innovation. The currency stuff is "just" a cool practical application tacked on the linked list

LLMs by contrast are not designed to just repeat what's already in the instructions, no matter which stance on LLM design you subscribe to

* exceptions apply

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