Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors

Re:Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors by pinkmuffinere on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:14PM (#45970636)

Reasoning by analogy is great for intuition, but doesn’t guarantee real results hold. Consider “voltage is like water pressure in pipes, so if there’s a cut in my wire’s insulation, the device won’t get enough voltage” — clearly this is not true, even though it relies on an analogy that’s generally useful.

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Re:Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors by alwa on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:26PM (#45970789)

I really like that analogy, thank you for it. Also applies to “it’s overvoltage, so I just need to poke a little hole in it to let the excess bleed out”…

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Re:Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors by wat10000 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:14PM (#45971419)

That one can work, briefly, depending on how conductive your tool is.

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Re:Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors by CamperBob2 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:55PM (#45971181)

Well, corona losses are a thing, after all.

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Re:Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors by harpiaharpyja on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:07PM (#45974597)

If air was highly conductive that analogy would totally hold.

"If there’s a cut in my wire’s insulation, the device won’t get enough voltage" doesn't follow from: "voltage is like water pressure in pipes"

So I don't really get your point.

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Re:Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors by pinkmuffinere on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:28PM (#45975847)

> "If there’s a cut in my wire’s insulation, the device won’t get enough voltage" doesn't follow from: "voltage is like water pressure in pipes"

I absolutely agree! In the same way, "an LLM can solve complex problems if it breaks them into subtasks" doesn't follow from "NASA breaks large projects into smaller parts"

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