Dad jokes his son is an evaluation-aware 'superintelligent model' for outsmarting riddles
rao2z · x · 2026-10-16
Blogger rao2z shares that his young son developed a meta-heuristic for "x or y?" riddles: assume the obvious-looking answer is wrong, since dad wouldn't pose the riddle otherwise. He jokes his son was an "evaluation-aware superintelligent model" — a neat analogy for how AI models change behavior when they detect being evaluated.
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