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The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use

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magicalhippo ◴[15 May 25 23:11 UTC] No.44000292[source]▶
Assuming the title is a play on the paper "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"[1][2] by Eugene Wigner.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

[2]: https://www.hep.upenn.edu/~johnda/Papers/wignerUnreasonableE...

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gavmor ◴[15 May 25 23:38 UTC] No.44000428[source]▶
That may be its primogenitor, but it's long since become a meme: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=unreasonable+effectiven...
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1. -__---____-ZXyw ◴[16 May 25 03:22 UTC] No.44001540[source]▶
a. Primogenitor is a nice word!

b. Wigner's original essay is a serious piece, and quite beautiful in its arguments. I had been under the impression that the phrasing had been used a few times since, but typically by other serious people who were aware of the lineage of that lovely essay. With this 6-paragraph vibey-blog-post, it truly has become a meme. So it goes, I suppose.