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For a sliding puzzle of this kind, half of all starting positions are unsolvable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle#Solvability

Maybe if you ask Claude to write code that generates random starting positions and checks them for solvability, it'll succeed at finding an unsolvable one.




If "Claude" was truly "intelligent", shouldn't it have either; A) tried this on it's own; or B) admit it had no clue how to proceed.

Expecting intelligence to somehow "emerge" from a statistical process is absurd. Yet $ billions are being funneled down this rabbit hole by tech "leaders" who should know better.




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