ASYMMETRY OF VERIFICATION AND VERIFIER'S LAW

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Asymmetry of verification is the idea that some tasks are much easier to verify than to solve. Examples of this are everywhere, for example, Sudokus take a lot of time to solve, but it is trivial to check if any given solution is correct. One of the most important realizations about asymmetry of verification is that it is possible to improve the asymmetry by having privileged information about the task - for example, it is trivial to check test answers with an answer key on hand. AI will likely be much better at verifiable tasks because it's much easier to solve verifiable tasks.