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		sailingparrot on July 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why GPT-3 Matters > Outside of academia I see this thing very often. "Oh, I'm sure if it was easy to do that, they'd have done it". Do you not see the cognitive dissonance? You were precisely claiming that because it should be easy to do they most likely have done it, and if they didn't report results it's because it failed. You are making this unsupported claim with 0 evidence to back you up.

YeGoblynQueenne on July 22, 2020 [–]

I did not say it's easy or hard. I said they can do it because they have the time and money.

In any case, it's an obvious thing to do and there's no obvious explanation of why they didn't, given that they could.

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