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What if you happen to be an unlucky genius like J. von Neumann or something?


You still should need to ask clarifying questions, because the specification of many problems is intentionally incomplete.

Beyond that though, you can just be honest and say you know a problem and they can either pick another or just talk about it anyway.




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