I, lsusr, am hosting an online tournament where players write in the style of lsusr. Who is the real lsusr? Who is an imposter?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dr5gZbyPqeKJCpaPL/usd500-write-like-lsusr-competition
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| # | Trader | Total profit |
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@Quroe More than one, or even none!
(Per the competition description on LW—you may expect the final number of YES’s to be between zero and all of them [inclusive]—lsusr may or may not have entered any number of entries in disguise—but real lsusr entries have to conform to his standards for truthful-/usefulness [paraphrased]).
(Made naive bets by “reading all the posts for lsusr vibes” [and Life Star for entertainment / comparison]—but not an AI analysis. I would not be surprised if my YES’s were lsusr—though they might be effortful imitators—but I would be surprised if my NO’s were [mostly by expectations of what lsusr would not post].)
@TannerNewell I'm curious to find out whether you got this right. Maybe let me know after the market resolves?
@Lsusr Retrospective:
All 5 of the easy NO's panned out—mostly based on "lsusr wouldn't think this was valuable to post…"—which left pulwat, Maitreya, and artdeco as "I could see these being lsusr…".
artdeco's "[Book Review] • → 🚹 → •" feels… perhaps slightly out-of-character, but I could see it as an entry-in-disguise.
Maitreya's "Human Values" seems reasonably-in-character, maybe a bit meta in the second half, reasonable overall.
But pulwat's "Orpheus' Basilisk"… well, I am surprised it's not the real lsusr!—and I would judge it to be "the most lsusr" of the contest entries overall.
pay 2, win 1.5, who knows what the question was