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<p id="v1reply-intro" style="background-color: #ffffff;">On 2026-09-09 12:25, John Levine wrote:</p>
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<div class="v1pre" style="font-family: monospace;">... I don't know any mechanical way to tell them apart.</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="font-family: monospace; background-color: #ffffff;">I think that boils down to "people don't always agree on what's stupid vs normal".</div>
<div class="v1pre" style="font-family: monospace; background-color: #ffffff;">There are, of course, mechanical ways to give an answer, e.g. freeze an LLM (or a PRNG) and ask "Is this name change stupid or normal, answer with 'yes' or 'no' only".</div>
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