> Silas -- I can't discuss specifics, but I can say there were no cheap tricks involved; Eliezer and I followed the spirit as well as the letter of the experimental protocol.

AFAIKT, Silas's approach *is* within both the spirit and the letter of the protocol.

Since I'm playing the conspiracy theorist I have to ask: how can we know that you are telling the truth? In fact, how can we know that the person who posted this comment is the same person who participated in the experiment? How can we know that this person even exists? How do we know that Russell Wallace is not a persona created by Eliezer Yudkowski?

Conspiracy theories thrive even in the face of published data. This is no way that a secret dataset can withstand one.