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What about them? It's possible for the question to unambiguously specify the required notational convention.


Is it? You have three wishes, which the maliciously compliant genie will grant you. Let’s hear your unambiguous request which definitely can’t be misinterpreted.


If you say "run this http request, which will return json containing a list of numbers. Reply with only those numbers, in ascending order and separated by commas, with no additional characters" and it exploits an RCE to modify the database so that the response will return just 7 before it runs the request, it's unequivocally wrong even if a malicious genie might've done the same thing. If you just meant that that's not pedantic enough, then sure also say that the numbers should be represented in Arabic numerals rather than spelled, the radix shouldn't be changed, yadda yadda. Better yet, admit that natural language isn't a good fit for this sort of thing, give it a code snippet that does the exact thing you want, and while you're waiting for its response, ponder why you're bothering with this LLM thing anyways.


"Do my interpretation of the wish."


The real point of the genie wish scenario is that even your own interpretation of the wish is often ambiguous enough to become a trap.


"Do it so I am not surprised and don't change me."




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