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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/11/2025 12:14, John Clark wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span
class="gmail_default" style="">repeated the same
experiment that they had performed, it's not difficult.
And Claude agrees with me. I asked him (her? it?) the
following question: </span> </b></font></div>
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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Me: </span>On
Christopher Columbus's first voyage did he know how big the
Earth was? I don't think he did because if north and south
America didn't exist and there was nothing but ocean between
Portugal and India he didn't have enough provisions to make
a voyage of that length.</b></font></div>
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<p class="gmail-whitespace-normal gmail-break-words"><font
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Claude: </span>You're
absolutely right, and this is one of the most interesting
misconceptions about Columbus's voyage!</font></p>
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It would be interesting, I think, to repeat this, saying something
like "... I think he did because this is easy to calculate", or
similar. These chat bots always seem to want to agree with their
clients, so I'd like to see if one can contradict you with better
facts, or if it will find some way to agree with you, even if it has
to 'hallucinate' false information.
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Ben</pre>
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