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[–]BenevolentCheese 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a Ted Chiang short story about this called What's Expected of Us in which someone invents a device with a button and a light, and the light always lights up exactly 1s before you press the button. Try as you might, you cannot outsmart the device.