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by ben_w 1202 days 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).