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Interview with Robin Hanson

The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy

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How to Ask Weird Questions to Answer College Essays

In the classroom, if you're doing it in class exam, then yes, you can just make them right by hand and close the computer. If you want other assignments like assigning papers that they spend some time thinking about, then that doesn't work for that. So this is exactly where people like me's inclination to go weird pays off. Other people have been asking standard essay questions all these years and getting very standard answers back. I've always thought, ask weird questions. The weird of your question, the harder it's going to be for them to look it up somewhere and find a previous essay on that. That works for the large language models too. As long as I check and

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