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You have three switches in one room and a single light bulb in another room. You are allowed to visit the room with the light bulb only once. How do you figure out which switch controls the bulb? Write your answer in the comments before looking at other answers.


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If this were an interview question, the correct response would be "Do you have any relevant questions for me? Because have a long list of things that more deserving of my precious time than to think about this!

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    5 months ago

    I suffer this a lot.

    Even found myself trying to reduce my use of the “~” character after reading that bots use them a lot. Aw. But it’s my fave character on the keyboard.

    And verbosity’s no worthy measure of smarter intelligence. Nor is LLM output smarter. Compelling as the output may be, stochastic-parrots arguably are not smart at all. Daunting to confront the implications of that.