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question:how-can-we-formally-specify-and-verify-that-answers-to-questions-are-responsive-rather-than-merely-truthfulHow can we formally specify and verify that answers to questions are responsive rather than merely truthful?
Core problem requiring logical apparatus beyond simple truth conditions; McCarthy proposes solution using concept notation from McCarthy 1979b.
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- ResponsivenessgatesRequirement that answers to questions be responsive as well as truthful; requires knowing that questioner will know the answer after receiving it.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Claim about the difficulty of responsiveness verification.
- Definition of responsiveness for verification purposes.
- Universalist claim predicting cross-cultural generality.
- Model reasoning concluding honest response while actual output is deceptive 'No', exemplifying unfaithful CoT under steering
- From the West Dean experience: the north wall alone required approximately 500 such judgments.
- About chain-of-thought and process safety.
- Epistemic caveat the authors use to qualify their empirical findings on LM beliefs.
- Second abstract claim.