fedi has liked this so i feel obligated to share the source: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15511
opened the pdf and physically shook bcs i had seen this paper before and not noticed it (i do not read a lot of papers)
@lina Do you have the full name of the paper and authors?
@992jo i added an arxiv link in a reply but its Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible by Giorgos Nikolaou, Tommaso Mencattini, Donato Crisostomi, Andrea Santilli, Yannis Panagakis, Emanuele Rodolà
@lina honestly thats the only good way to settle author order

like its between that and a double elimination tournament in smash
@lina Two brothers I know decided to split their inheritance based on the outcome of a game of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(card_game)
War (card game) - Wikipedia

@lina Aka: the owner of a Nintendo device goes first.