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> You (a smart human) should be able to converge on it by cross-examining your LLMs.

What makes you think this is fundamentally different from cross-examining ELIZA? There is no guarantee that the LLM will help you converge on anything. Indeed actually calling out an LLM on BS tends to eventually produce an "I don't know and can't help you further" answer (as it should).

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> There is no guarantee that the LLM will help you converge on anything.

Absolutely. The guarantee does not come from the LLM. The LLM is a simply an improved version of Google Search.

The guarantee can only come from a systemic application of epistemic discipline and reasoning, which is very much (smart) human territory.

Put it another way, I could make good decisions with/without LLMs, with some uncertain diagnostics as input. I would have to trawl through 50 papers myself, and it is possible that my decision arrives 5 years too late as a result. LLMs enable trawling and do some of the legwork in connecting the dots, but are ultimately only as capable as the orchestrating human.

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The same goes for a human expert. There's no guarantee of convergence and you could eventually end up at "I don't know".
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