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w10-1today at 6:51 AM0 repliesview on HN

Assuming rules and principles are something like first- and second- derivatives of optimized equations for a given domain, it makes sense to teach/train them in the context of derivation and integration. It would be fascinating to use existing case-based literature from e.g., business, law, or medicine for the training.

A related question for setting intent for integration/testing: instead of stating the goal, pedagogy in those fields state the concrete problem and ask the student for an answer before they've been taught the principles or approaches, as a way of motivating the training (a bit like philosophers posing paradoxes). I'd be very curious whether LLM's are sensitive to this kind of direction, and if it produces better results. The theory for case-based discipline is that you don't want people to just apply rules; it's the flip side of working from first principles, to engage all the relevant and concerning facts instead of omitting those that don't fit the rule. I suspect LLM's could actually be good at this.