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The fact that the idea for this paper even made sense to someone starts with absolute fantasy about #LLMs. Imagine turning anyone loose on running a business with as little information as the #AI had. Imagine thinking there was a possibility of any result other than catastrophe. Imagine trying to write a specification for a regular computer program that does something as complex as running a small business, using nothing more than a page or 2 of text. Even 10 pages of prose is not going to do it.

When we study compression in computer science, one of the things you learn is that there is a theoretical limit to how much you can compress things. You can’t compress beyond a certain size without losing information. The authors of this paper clearly believe that you can compress instructions for running a business successfully into some incredibly small amount of text. It’s simply not possible, but they’re too enamoured with fantasy computers to think it through.

https://arxiv.org/html/2502.15840v1