Socratic questioning remains the way to keep one-upping models on open-ended reasoning
akbirthko · x · 2026-11-08
The author argues that for open-ended reasoning tasks without formal verification, the Socratic method is still the best way to keep out-performing models: probing questions and clarifications push the model to reach conclusions on its own, or break down and admit ignorance. The attached image shows the definition of the Socratic method as argumentative dialogue.
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