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What part of this is nonsensical?

“I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?”

The goal is clearly stated in the very first sentence. A valid solution is already given in the second sentence. The third sentence only seems tricky because the answer is so painfully obvious that it feels like a trick.

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I disagree. It should I think answer with a simple clarifying question:

Where is the car that you want to wash?

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Are you legally permitted to drive that vehicle? Is the car actually a 1:10th scale model? Have aliens just invaded earth?

Sorry, but that’s not how conversation works. The person explained the situation and asked a question; it’s entirely reasonable for the respondent to answer based on the facts provided. If every exchange required interrogating every premise, all discussion would collapse into an absurd rabbit hole. It’s like typing “2 + 2 =” into a calculator and, instead of displaying “4”, being asked the clarifying question, “What is your definition of 2?”

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And even then it would point to a heavy skew towards American culture with the implicit assumption that there must be multiple cars in the household
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How is the question nonsensical? It's a perfectly valid question.
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Because validity doesn't depend on meaning. Take the classic example: "What is north of the North Pole?". This is a valid phrasing of a question, but is meaningless without extra context about spherical geometry. The trick question in reference is similar in that its intended meaning is contained entirely in the LLM output.
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There's nothing syntactically meaningless about wanting your car washed.
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I agree that it doesn't break any rules of the English language, that doesn't make it a valid question in everyday contexts though.

Ask a human that question randomly and see how they respond.

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Can you explain yourself? I can't see how this question doesn't make sense in any way.
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The question isn't nonsense, it just has an answer which is so obvious nobody would ever ask it organically.
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