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Re:GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is sho... by softwaredoug on Sunday September 07, 2025 @10:52PM (#45164262)
Well I will just need to start saying “critical thinking”? Or some other term?

I have a liberal arts background. So I use the term research to mean gathering evidence, evaluating its trustworthiness and biases, and avoiding related thinking errors related to evaluating evidence (https://thedecisionlab.com/biases).

LLMs can fall prey to these problems as well. Usually it’s not just “reasoning” that gives you trouble. It’s the reasoning about evidence. I see this with Claude Code a lot. It can sometimes create some weird code, hallucinating functionality that doesn’t exist, all because it found a random forum post.

I realize though that the term is pretty overloaded :)

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