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Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by spencerchubb on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:05PM (#39957215)
This trend of "All You Need" in paper titles needs to die. The original "Attention is All You Need" used that title because it is literally true in their case. So many papers just use it as a meme now, and it distracts from the true insight of the paper.
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by donovanr on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:09PM (#39957233)
it's uncreative/tired but at least to the point. Too many papers are confused / opaque agglomerations of a year's worth of research shoehorned into a paper. At least with these you can fairly easily assess whether the claim is supported or not.
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by ravelfan on Sunday April 07, 2024 @06:43AM (#39959890)
Obviously, more people are going to read it.

It is like putting a stupid face on your youtube video to show how shocked and amazed you are at the content.

Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by Terr_ on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:39PM (#39957390)
"All You Need Considered Harmful."
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by naruhodo on Saturday April 06, 2024 @11:05PM (#39957824)
What if "Considered Harmful" is considered harmful?
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by benaubin on Saturday April 06, 2024 @10:04PM (#39957518)
"'All You Need Considered Harmful.' Is All You Need"
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by nickpsecurity on Saturday April 06, 2024 @10:32PM (#39957678)
“Make All You Need Great Again Considered Harmful.”
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by jordanpg on Saturday April 06, 2024 @10:55PM (#39957777)
I think more or less the same thing about the word "meme" as you have used it.
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by spencerchubb on Sunday April 07, 2024 @09:46AM (#39960745)
I feel I used the word 'meme' appropriately

"A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme."

Paper authors use "All You Need" to allude to the well-known transformer paper, even if their proposed technique is not in fact all you need.

Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by jordanpg on Sunday April 07, 2024 @02:14PM (#39962557)
You used the word in the sense it commonly used, which is something like "often-repeated" or, more frequently, "shared a lot on social media."

While I agree that this is consistent with the WP definition in the broadest sense, it isn't really what Dawkins had in mind in the Selfish Gene.

Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by spencerchubb on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:17PM (#39963026)
My understanding is that a meme spreads through memetics similar to how a gene spreads through genetics. Ideas will spread that are fit for reproduction, i.e. communication.

Oftentimes memes are powerful at reproducing, but in science we don't want ideas that are likely to spread. We want ideas that are truthful

Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by soulofmischief on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:17PM (#39957274)
It's equally annoying to see this comment crop up every single time someone uses the phrase.
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by karagenit on Saturday April 06, 2024 @10:04PM (#39957513)
And it’s equally annoying to see this comment about that comment about the paper every time. Recursion!
Re:More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with... by soulofmischief on Sunday April 07, 2024 @01:55AM (#39958470)
This is why I come to Hacker News :)