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deepsquirrelnettoday at 7:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

Ask an llm to pick a random number from 1-10. My money is on 7.

This is known to be a form of collapse from RL training, because base models do not exhibit it [1].

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00047


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baschtoday at 8:00 PM

Since its unclear whats going on, Gemini first gave me some python.

import random

random_number = random.randint(1, 10) print(f"{random_number=}")

Then it stated the output.

Code output random_number=8

"This time, the dice landed on 8."

Code output random_number=9

"Your next random number is 9."

I would guess its not actually executing the python it displayed? Just a simulation, right?

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exhumettoday at 7:51 PM

copied your text exactly into the quickest one i could access lol

pick a random number from 1-10

Copilot said:

Copilot Your random number (1–10) is: 7

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auctoday at 7:55 PM

https://xkcd.com/221/

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