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by porridgeraisin 5 days ago
Yes, when you use a standard theoretical physics textbook / course sequence, it is 100% correct.

More broadly, LLMs or anything at all, needs a verifier. If the task can be automatically verified, great, then anyone can use them. If you can't automate the verification, then you need to be able to verify it using your knowledge. Knowledge required to verify is lower than the knowledge required to create in very few cases. This is why you still need a fully trained human verifier. We are yet to reorganise the overall "tasks" in the economy such that verification can be done with much lesser knowledge, for no reason other than that there was never demand for this until creation became automatic few years ago. It is possible and is slowly being done, there are many many startups working on automating verification in different fields and in many cases we will see fields reorganise themselves to be more amenable to automatic verification. Note that _effort_ required to verify is much lower than what is required to create, for almost anybody, and LLMs have economic use just due to that alone, albeit in the hands of a knowledgeable human.