His son answered riddles like an evaluation-aware model — and nailed the analogy
rao2z · x · 2026-10-16
The author shares a parenting anecdote: whenever asked "x or y?" mind benders, his young son developed a meta-heuristic — "dad won't ask me the bender if the obvious-looking answer is correct" — and thus always picked the other one. The author jokes his kid was a "superintelligent Evaluation Aware model... er, kid": a perfect real-life illustration of how models infer they're being tested and adapt behavior accordingly.
Related event: Dad jokes his son's riddle strategy is an evaluation-aware model(2 posts)→
More from Fun
- AI summaries dubbed "yap-to-English translation" for bloated posts — arankomatsuzaki · 2026-10-16
- Joke calls for a 'Make interp' Manhattan Project against LessWrong purple prose — Apoorva__Lal · 2026-10-16
- Kids mocking influencers is 'nature is healing' moment the internet loves — SuB8u · 2026-10-16
- Dev shows off the cable-management disaster under his desk — haydendevs · 2026-10-16
- Locked out of his hotel, altryne piggybacks on AI Engineer conference Wi-Fi at 110Mbps — altryne · 2026-10-16
- Longevity figure replies to "we're all gonna die" with "some of us are not going to die" — rand_longevity · 2026-10-16