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0 pointsv3ss0n2y ago0 comments

Why you are gating and experiment?

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Because it is unsolicited LLM spam, not an "experiment". The "experiment" seems to be if they get caught doing it, or not.

Yes, that was explicit, the experiment was to see if it would be caught. That was the test. Did you read it?

hnbad2y ago

This isn't an experiment any more than the fad of YouTubers doing "pranks" as "social experiments".

He had an idea, he wrote a test, he ran it, he provided results. What are you on about?

What hypothesis are they testing?

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Because it is unsolicited LLM spam, not an "experiment". The "experiment" seems to be if they get caught doing it, or not.

Yes, that was explicit, the experiment was to see if it would be caught. That was the test. Did you read it?

hnbad2y ago

This isn't an experiment any more than the fad of YouTubers doing "pranks" as "social experiments".

He had an idea, he wrote a test, he ran it, he provided results. What are you on about?

What hypothesis are they testing?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse