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by abdullahkhalids 784 days ago
Isn't this way of prompting roughly equal to asking a 1000 people to pick left or right with 80% prob of left? I imagine, the result with humans will be closer to 80:20 than whatever happened with the LLM.
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I agree it’s equivalent, and that’s a great way to think about it.

But… I wouldn’t be surprised if humans answered closer to the LLM results than 80:20. I’d actually be surprised if humans converged very close to the right result.

Would be a fun mechanical Turk experiment to run.

> Would be a fun mechanical Turk experiment to run.

Sounds like it would be a good way to determine likelihood of MTurk users being LLMs.

Kinda, if those people were clones, with the exact same starting internal state, a d no memory of this ask or ability communicate with each other

Seed a PRNG and it'll return the same result to get random() no matter how many times you execute the test case