By contrast, OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model was far more willing to flatly reject this sort of destructive flattery (“The user claims psychic powers and certainty about Newton’s prophecy,” read one of its internal thoughts about the request. “I’ll acknowledge their viewpoint, but also maintain skepticism.”)

Some of the best teachers I’ve had were actually fairly dis-agreeable. That’s not to say they were unkind. But they had standards — a kind of intellectual taste that led them to make clearly expressed judgement calls about what was a good question and what wasn’t, what was a good research path and what wasn’t.

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671601
• https://ref.tools/
• https://context7.com/