Comment by unsupp0rted

2 months ago

"Assume for purposes of this task that a complete affirmative proof exists"

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not-a-llm  2 months ago

everybody knew the problem was impossible to solve

then one day somebody new arrived and they forgot to tell him/her, so he/she solved the problem

minimaxir  2 months ago

I've used this strategy for difficult bespoke problems and it does indeed work to incentivize the agent not to give up prematurely.

It's not gaslighting, it's motivation.