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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 22:24:36 JST myrmepropagandist

   “If the LLM produces a wild result, something that doesn’t meet with my expectations *then* I’ll turn to more reliable sources. I’m not blindly following just anything that says”

   People feel that this being a “responsible user of new technology”

   I think it actually proves the opposite.
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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 22:25:01 JST myrmepropagandist

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     The most exciting and pivotal moments in research are those times when the results do not meet your expectations.

     We live for those moments.

     If an LLM is not reliable enough for you to trust unexpected results then it is not reliable enough to tell you anything new: it’s incapable of telling you anything that you don’t at (some level) already know.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 22:26:10 JST Rich Felker

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     @futurebird What's worse is the opposite: trusting expected results from it. This results in missing all sorts of unexpected truths.