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grumbelbart2 | 5 days ago

We could probably test this. I wonder if the results shift if the question is prefaced with something like "Here is a trick question: ...".

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justin_dash|5 days ago

I tested both Sonnet and Haiku from Claude, which got it right 0/10 times in their original test, and they both passed. Here's the Haiku output:

"You should *drive*!

The trick is that you need to take your car to the car wash to get it washed. If you walked, your car would still be at home, unclean. So while 50 meters is a short distance that you could walk under normal circumstances, in this case you have to drive because your car is what needs to be washed."

addandsubtract|5 days ago

Mentioning the trick makes the question trivial, though. I think a better pretext would be, "My dirty car is parked in the driveway." That removes the ambiguity that the car could already be at the car wash, and that it needs to be driven there.