My theory on Eliezer Yudkowsky's AI-Box Experiment 18 years ago
It's a good strategy, but it only really works the first time - you only need one public success to make the point to future generations. Since Eliezer Yudowsky has pulled this off more than once, (and at least on one subsequent occasion at significantly higher stakes), I can only conclude that he has used more than one strategy successfully - probably something he developed on the fly over the course of the two hours. I'm inclined to parse "There's no super-clever special trick to it. I just did it the hard way." as supporting evidence, but that's obviously a personal bias ;)