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Two Agents, One Prompt, and Your Weight

Logic 2025-11-18 v2 Probability

Abstract

We investigate a quantitative variant of the classic Two Doors logic puzzle, in which the answer space is no longer binary, for example when the goal is to recover a numerical fact (such as one's true weight) rather than choose between two doors. The puzzle retains the original structure: one agent always tells the truth, the other always lies. Our central contribution is to identify a class of self-referential prompts that successfully extract the correct quantitative answer under minimal assumptions. We also explore how well does \texttt{ChatGPT} does in reasoning for this problem which is just a little bit out of distribution.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2510.08232,
  title  = {Two Agents, One Prompt, and Your Weight},
  author = {Elchanan Mossel and Amnon Schreiber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08232},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Typos corrected

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