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		air7 on Sept 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can programming languages boost each other via ins... Wow, this is the first contradiction to Betteridge's law that I've encountered... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

lainga on Sept 1, 2023 | [–]

Sort of. None of the programming languages mentioned in the paper were actually boosted in any way, an LLM was.

pmontra on Sept 1, 2023 | [–]

Betteridge's Law can be trivially confuted. For example one could make a blog post titled "Did the Sun Raise Yesterday?" I don't dare trying the law with a headline like that about tomorrow though.

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