<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 9:39 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> <font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>> I asked Gemini to explain the percentages and the conclusion.Basically, Gemini said that it is because the maths is working with insufficient information</i></font>.</blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I don't think I've ever seen so many words used to say "we don't have a clue".</i></font><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Those <span class="gmail_default" style="">many</span> words were necessary<span class="gmail_default" style=""> in order to dispute people like Drake (of equation fame) </span>who claimed not only <span class="gmail_default" style="">did</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">he </span>have a clue about the answer to a very important questio<span class="gmail_default" style="">n, he had the definitive answer.</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> But of course he didn't</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Why is it so difficult for people (and by extension, LLMs) to just say "I don't know"?</i></font><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">Ask Frank Drake.</b></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>