I merely answered your question!

> How can you be grateful enough to want to send someone such a letter but not grateful enough to write one?

Answer according to your definitions: false premise, the author (the person who set up the LLM loops) was not grateful enough to want to send such a letter.

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bronson 11 hours ago | parent [-]

So the author sent spam that they're not interested in? That's terrible.

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jdiff 10 hours ago | parent [-]

One additional bit of context, they provided guidelines and instructions specifically to send emails and verify their successful delivery so that the "random act of kindness" could be properly reported and measured at the end of this experiment.

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twoodfin 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the key misalignment here is whether the output of an appropriately prompted LLM can ever be considered an “act of kindness”.

	▲	mckn1ght 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At least in this case, it’s indeed quite Orwellian.