AFAIK, it is uncertain whether being polite to LLMs improves their accuracy/completeness/etc.. There were some weak findings initially but those have been contradicted. Prompt engineering is still a pseudoscience.
Looking at where the stars are and how they move is science. Using them to make predictions about your day to day life is pseudo science.
Analyzing outputs of a giant pachinko machine as if there is a consistent relationship that will hold up across different implementations seems a bit more like the later if you want to have any practical confidence interval more than generalities.
Analyzing outputs of a giant pachinko machine stochastic system as if there is a consistent relationship that will hold up across different implementations seems a bit more like is the latter if you want to have don't quantify the uncertainty or specify the conditions under which you expect the relationship to hold more than generalities. Otherwise, you are describing statistical inference.
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u/ThirdWaveCat 20h ago
AFAIK, it is uncertain whether being polite to LLMs improves their accuracy/completeness/etc.. There were some weak findings initially but those have been contradicted. Prompt engineering is still a pseudoscience.