Mathematicians know that infinities are viral.
- Mathematicians know that infinities are viral.
- If you introduce one, it infects everything.
- The same logic as Ben Mathes' Smuggled Infinity.
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- A lot of absurd solutions hide behind an implicit "once the LLM is perfectly good".2025-09-02
- Prompt injection is very unlikely to be solved by the model simply getting so good it can't be tricked.2025-08-11
- People who believe "the model is the product" are potentially falling prey to a smuggled infinity.2025-07-21
- "Perfect" is a smuggled infinity.2025-05-12
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