CoT is basically bullshit, entirely confabulated and not related to any "thought process"....

andrepd • last Thursday at 5:18 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

CoT is basically bullshit, entirely confabulated and not related to any "thought process"...

clbrmbr • last Friday at 12:21 AM

But still CoT distillation WORKS. See the DeepSeek R1 paper.

whattheheckheck • last Friday at 2:26 AM

Tokens relate to each other. More tokens more compute

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