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I think you are hung up on the visual representation.

Last week, the post about jailbreaking ChatGPT(?) talked about turning off a direction in possibility-space to disable the "I'm sorry, but I can't..." message.

In a regular program, it would be a boolean variable, or a single ASM instruction.

And you could ask the same thing. "How does my program have an off switch if there aren't enough values to store all possible meanings of "off"? Does my off switch variable map to your off switch variable?"

And the answer would be yes, or no, or it doesn't matter. It's a tool/construct.



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