My point is only that there’ll be many ways to slide an answer pretty smoothly between [direct answer] and [useful information]. Splitting into [Give direct answer with (k—x) bits] [Give useful information with x bits] and sliding x from 0 to k is just the first option that occurred to me.
In practice, I don’t imagine the path actually followed would look like that. I was just sanity-checking by asking myself whether a discontinuous jump is necessary to get to the behaviour I’m suggesting: I’m pretty confident it’s not.
Oh yes—I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
My point is only that there’ll be many ways to slide an answer pretty smoothly between [direct answer] and [useful information]. Splitting into [Give direct answer with (k—x) bits] [Give useful information with x bits] and sliding x from 0 to k is just the first option that occurred to me.
In practice, I don’t imagine the path actually followed would look like that. I was just sanity-checking by asking myself whether a discontinuous jump is necessary to get to the behaviour I’m suggesting: I’m pretty confident it’s not.