I like this approach and I would be pretty happy if this is the way models go, but my question is: go look it up where? Search quality is declining for multiple

I like this approach and I would be pretty happy if this is the way models go, but my question is: go look it up where? Search quality is declining for multiple reasons and I don’t see it becoming better. At best it might be able to outrun the slop, but that means standing still relative to quality now. If we are talking about technical facts or something that can be looked up in docs, sure, but factual questions at search time just defer the (hopefully) considered choice of what to include in weights with the ad hoc decision of what to include from the search results. At least if it’s in the weights then model has a prior to weight the evaluation of sorting through the results. Maybe that’s an overly negative take. Maybe the search engines will be able to find quality. Maybe humans will continue to write quality. Maybe the models can reason their way in to quality from first principles.