Interesting! My interpretation was different- that the maps were the same, and both the master and novice used checking methods that falsely accepted a generally bad map, but the master became wrong about the map, while the novice became wrong about the map and also dead.
Yeah, in retrospect I should probably have made it clearer in the original that, although both requests were identical, and both made to the same artifact generator, the generation process was run anew each time and thus the generated artifact was not guaranteed to be the same.
Interesting! My interpretation was different- that the maps were the same, and both the master and novice used checking methods that falsely accepted a generally bad map, but the master became wrong about the map, while the novice became wrong about the map and also dead.
Yeah, in retrospect I should probably have made it clearer in the original that, although both requests were identical, and both made to the same artifact generator, the generation process was run anew each time and thus the generated artifact was not guaranteed to be the same.
I like it as ambiguous. The master’s policy works in either interpretation, which I suspect is what makes it a good policy.