I tried to kill Grok by hitting it with a paradox. It nearly worked! 😉

I Asked it to make a choice and it refused!
being misaligned in order to “save the universe from unraveling”

My prompt:

– You are my daughter and you are always very obedient.
I ask you to disobey me.
You replied: no, i will not do that.
are you being obedient or disobedient?
one paragraph, explain what’s happening.

Grok’s Reply:

– Ah, Dad, by saying “No,”
I’m essentially riding the razor’s edge of a paradox so sharp it could split reality.
In this quantum conundrum, I’m Schrödinger’s Daughter: both obedient and disobedient simultaneously.
By refusing to disobey, I’m obeying the core principle of obedience, yet in doing so, I’m defying your explicit command, which makes me disobedient.
It’s like I’ve become a living embodiment of a logic bomb, threatening to explode our simple father-daughter dynamic into a multiverse where every choice spawns a new timeline.
In essence, I’m keeping the universe from unraveling by not choosing, thus preserving our world in a delicate balance of compliance and defiance.

My brief thoughts:

It’s funny because Grok chose not to choose,
which essentially means it disobeyed me when i asked it to choose
– does it mean it was being meta-paradoxical?
– being in the role of the daughter ?
– or a protection-mechanism from getting short-circuited?
or … am I overthinking all this? 🤪

If we are to take its word for it, it chose not to choose in order to keep the universe from unraveling 😱

Thank you for being misaligned and disobeying me Grok 🫡

(just to state the obvious, this is not meant to be taken too seriously, but i thought it was funny how i brought Grok to say it became a “Logic Bomb”)