AI researchers joke that evals trace back to Lucas et al., 1977
Ben_Reinhardt · x · 2026-09-29
Ben Reinhardt tells @patrickmineault to cite sources, who replies with "Lucas et al., 1977" — a tongue-in-cheek nod to the classic paper on descriptive complexity, joking that today's AI evals culture is just an old idea renamed.
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