AI RESEARCH
The Collapse of Heterogeneity in Silicon Philosophers
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2604.23575v1 Announce Type: cross Silicon samples are increasingly used as a low-cost substitute for human panels and have been shown to reproduce aggregate human opinion with high fidelity. We show that, in the alignment-relevant domain of philosophy, silicon samples systematically collapse heterogeneity. Using data from $N = {277}$ professional philosophers drawn from PhilPeople profiles, we evaluate seven