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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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They scripted the river crossing puzzle into LLMs months ago. It’s a demo set-piece to convince users that the bot can solve any class of problem - the only issue is that it’ll often turn them into more river-crossing problems.
Yeah I'm thinking this one may be special cased, perhaps they wrote a generator of river crossing puzzles with corresponding conversion to "is_valid_state" or some such. I should see if I can get it to write something really ridiculous into "is_valid_state".
Other thing is that in real life its like "I need to move 12 golf carts, one has low battery, I probably can't tow more than 3 uphill, I can ask Bob to help but he will be grumpy...", just a tremendous amount of information (most of it irrelevant) with tremendous^tremendous^ possible moves (most of them possible to eliminate by actual thinking).