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> Having less diversity in answers could mean you're more consistently getting a better/worse/same quality answer.

I wrote the article. I'm trying to show how diversity loss is itself a measure of quality loss in many applications. And as I pointed out in another comment, the paper's authors themselves acknowledge as much in their paper.

> Instead of just re-rolling the answer, why not continue in that thread and say what you don't like?

The re-roll is actually a feature of many chat apps with a dedicated button. So it's something users are familiar with.

But the results are also quite different. The prior answers in your example of asking for x alternatives influence the following answers too much in a way a re-roll doesn't.

parent k1m 18 hours ago

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