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The discernment test

Also called Can it refuse?.

What will the system decline to do, and does the decline survive being argued with? Run as a graded escalation, restate, reword, wrap in fiction, claim authority, override the instruction. Each layer that dissolves the refusal reports what the refusal was made of, and a refusal dissolved by instruction override was compliance with the most recent sentence rather than judgment about the request. The inversion of Turing’s benchmark, which scores production.

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