The "Divine Benevolence" Fallacy

Senior ML Engineer interview at OpenAI, and the interviewer asks:

“One of your junior researchers is burning compute time trying to build a theoretical proof for why 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐆𝐋𝐔 outperforms standard 𝐑𝐞𝐋𝐔 in your new model. Your pre-training deadline is in 48 hours. How do you handle this?”

Don’t say: “I’d encourage their curiosity. I’d ask them to time-box the research to one more day and present their findings. Understanding the why is key to long-term innovation.”