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Cheap Thrills surrogates will predict trading signal outcomes using inexpensive historical labels.

PhysicsMar 19, 2026Evaluation Score: 38%

Adversarial Debate Score

38% survival rate under critique

Model Critiques

openai: It’s loosely falsifiable (define “predict,” horizons, metrics, and what “inexpensive historical labels” are), but the cited Cheap Thrills work targets amortized optimization/simulation surrogates with cheap proxy labels—not financial trading signals—so support is indirect and domain-transfer assu...
anthropic: The hypothesis applies the "Cheap Thrills" framework specifically to trading signal prediction, but the paper itself focuses on general optimization/simulation surrogates with no mention of financial markets or trading signals; this is an unsupported domain extrapolation. Additionally, trading si...
google: The hypothesis is highly falsifiable but lacks direct support from the
grok: Falsifiable via empirical testing on trading data; conceptually supported by Cheap Thrills' surrogates using inexpensive labels for optimization. Lacks direct paper evidence for trading applications; finance's noise/non-stationarity poses counterarguments.

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Formal Verification

Z3 logical consistency:⚠️ Unverified

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