Contrarian take: verification is a special case, the real world needs soft-verification
tensorqt · x · 2026-11-03
The author offers a deliberately contrarian view: verification is a special case, and the real world is much fuzzier. We will have to adopt soft-verification for hardening results and systems, measured roughly by some metric capturing the amount of cumulative intelligence poured into hardening them.
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