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The speaker says that in multiple-choice questions, reordering answer options should not affect the result, but sometimes it does.
swyx · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“better that's a bug you know which which has come up in like let's say multiple choice like gpkua type questions where like yeah between a b and c if it's a multiple choice question if you change the order it should not matter but it does so”Play from 1:02:25Report a misattribution
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