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phonebucket | 3 years ago

I think this test is pretty ambiguous.

If you answer all the questions after reading all of them, you could only get only question 100 wrong and get the other 99 correct, so reach a score of 99/100.

If you answer only questions 1 and 2, you get the answer to 100 right too, so you could score 3/100.

In the latter case, you could score 3/3 too, depending on how the examiner decides to mark it.

So which is it?

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ben_w|3 years ago

This is part of why I think it's highly relevant to the AI/LLM discussion.

Now sure, with the benefit of 25-ish years of hindsight, I think that while my actions were correct in the situation and the point of the exercise was to get the other kids to think more like I already did, the "strictly correct" response — and what we would demand from an AI for safety reasons right before complaining about how weirdly inhuman this is — would be to answer Q1-Q99, then for Q100 write down the answers to Q1/Q2 again (and as Q1 was just "read" that just meant Q2).