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The speaker says the paper was desk-rejected because reviewers did not trust its simulation, rather than because of mathematical concerns.
swyx · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“yeah this is like it's weirdly”
“not even”
“forced”
“it's”
“and”
“not even”
“artificial”
“math it's just we don't trust your simulation it's not about math”
“it was i mean they just desk rejected the thing it's like and it's just like they like they didn't even give us like clear like clear sort of signals um but like the world of economics unfortunately doesn't have proper yeah it doesn't have proper uh benchmarks so you cannot be like eventually why did neural nets win not because people loved it like they had”Play from 55:07Report a misattribution
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