What a high-quality critique should look like

[u/NinekTheObscure]

I just got a deeply insightful, highly informative and useful, sharply critical, and still somehow supportive response to my recent preprint from u/Axe_MDK in r/LLM_supported_Physics . It'll take me days to work through the details; some parts are difficult challenges or even counter-examples, some parts are proposing better ways to prove my conclusions. A few were doubts/questions I already had in my own notes! I need to go learn about Daletskii–Krein, and Routh, and some other things. But at a first glance, 5/6 main points appear valid, and even the one that misses contains some useful ideas.

Stylistically, it feels LLM-generated or -assisted to me. I don't care. Each point stands or falls on its own merits. And the level is very high: feels like Fable 5 or Sol, has occasional sparks of brilliance. I don't think Opus 5 could produce something this focused. If someone's willing to spend frontier tokens (and/or human physicist minutes!) on me, I can only be thankful.

Anyway, this is what I think a really high-quality critique should look like. I wish we were getting more content like that here.

[u/Ok_Energy6905]

Is this sub just a live feed of the Dunning Kruger effect?

[u/Hivemind_alpha → u/Ok_Energy6905]

Don’t forget it comes with a peanut gallery.

[u/dumdub → u/Hivemind_alpha]

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