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Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson

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129 points kiyanwang | 2 comments | 20 Feb 25 07:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.437s | source
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vasco ◴[20 Feb 25 08:01 UTC] No.43112208[source]▶
That's not what "the exception that proves the rule" means.
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huijzer ◴[20 Feb 25 08:07 UTC] No.43112244[source]▶
In general from a formal logic perspective the whole idea of “an exception that proves the rule” is flawed. If the statement was “an exception that disproves the rule”, then I would agree.
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1. throw310822 ◴[20 Feb 25 08:19 UTC] No.43112311[source]▶
I always thought it meant "the exception (to the rule-of-thumb) proves the (hard, correct) rule".
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2. AndrewDucker ◴[20 Feb 25 08:33 UTC] No.43112425[source]▶
It's used in multiple senses, so it's almost impossible to tell what the person using it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...