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The Aaronson Oracle

https://aaronsonoracle.com/
15•routeroff•1h ago

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DivingForGold•1h ago
About this page:

The idea and the algorithm are Aaronson's, and the lineage is Hagelbarger's and Shannon's. This page is a teaching version of their work, and it is not affiliated with any of them. Prior web implementations exist and are credited in reference 6.

Built by Spencer Stanton as plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No framework, no build step, no analytics, and nothing about you leaves your browser: your session is held in localStorage and nowhere else.

(Scott's name is mentioned at the bottom)

SiempreViernes•29m ago
Stanton should say something about how long he's practised to write exactly like a mainstream LLM, surely his effort in resisting the urge to edit this page for length must have been heroic: it is worth a mention.
pdpi•44m ago
This is, effectively, the game that branch predictors in CPUs are playing with your code. Except that, in that version of the game, you win when the CPU guesses correctly.
p-e-w•40m ago
Branch predictors aren’t playing a game in the sense of this game, because the code isn’t adversarially trying to be unpredictable.
Jaxan•42m ago
I remember a rock paper scissors AI decades ago that did something similar.
imurray•24m ago
Here's a more recent implementation of rock paper scissors with an Aaronson Oracle: https://rpsoracle.netlify.app/example/
mkmk•42m ago
Such a cool concept and demonstration, but utterly exhausting to read the claudeslop.
SiempreViernes•31m ago
Very much so, this is waay too long. Sadly there's no wikipedia article to link to in its place.
cammikebrown•38m ago
I stayed around 50% for hundreds of presses. Not sure what I did right/wrong.
kevinwang•26m ago
Related (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38079512
PrimeOS32•26m ago
37% predicted. Easy. Just press doubles trebles and quadruples more than feels natural.
cirrhosis•20m ago
This submission was on the front page of HN yesterday (Show HN: How random are you?):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074909

The top comment:

> This is a nice spin on the Aaronson oracle:

> In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next

And today we have a web app of this that seems fully generated by Claude.

ChaitanyaSai•16m ago
I find these unreadable. How, if these are trained on writing, and then reinforced to appeal to people do they end up with this writing style? Is AIs voting on AI writing how we arrived at unbearable load-bearing moment?
SpicyLemonZest•12m ago
The hypothesis that I've become pretty attached to (I forget where I saw it first) is that the "AI" writing style actually started off pretty good but any writing style that people see constantly starts to feel obnoxious. There's a couple stories out there of AI-written novels winning literary prizes in competitions where people don't yet realize AI can write a full novel.
js8•13m ago
There used to be some studies on telepathy in the 60s and 70s that were wrong, because they used humans to pick objects rather than random generators. But humans do not make good random generators, and can be exploited even by other humans. For example, IIRC, humans tend to select some other option with slightly higher probability.

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