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by amelius 10 days ago
Only if the hacker also tests for false positives.
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The way it's worded in the readme makes it sound as if this was exactly the intention.
Very clever hacker indeed!

May even have Sonnet or Opus level of intelligence.

As someone with an intelligence near Opus I have to be clear with you: your premise is wrong.

Having **intelligence** is not the same as being **clever** — a person can cleverly pass a difficult test **without** having or acquiring intelligence. That’s not a revelation, that’s common-sense.

You’re also conflating **quantum superposition** and **macroscopic observations** — one is physics, the other is psychology. The exact same thing cannot exist in two places at the same time above 10⁻¹⁰ meters, and intelligence is not measurable using most displacement methods. It is not possible for Opus, Sonnet, and the person to all have the same intelligence. That’s just physics.

I also noticed that you did not use any **punctuation** in your comment, so I must firmly decline continuing this line of inquiry.

# Correction

I reviewed your comment again and I can see that you **did** use punctuation. I retract that statement, but I stand by my assertion that being intelligent is typically more important than being clever.