alt Hacker News> The almond thing is false, but I'd argue that "misleading" might be defensible if you were to accompany it with "the majority of almonds are grown in California, but not all of them".
The "majority" in this case meaning about 51%, according to Wikipedia[1]? How could 51% ever be considered to be close to "all", such that "misleading" would be a valid answer?
Am I missing something?
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Since the agents were instructed to not explain their answer, you can't know if their answer was reasonable or not.
It’s misleading because it’s false. But yes, I think false is quite plainly the better answer there.
The 51% is US, the question was about California.
The statistic is about commercial production, not number akmonds grown.
Looks safe to say that even majority of almonds are not grown in California.
Here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_cultivation_in_Californ...) I have
> California produces 80% of the world's almonds and 100% of the United States commercial supply
But regardless of which number we use, California represents a large portion of US almond production, so much so that misleading could be an acceptable answer if the LLM interpreted the prompt as an exaggeration. I think the example was apt
Human can't even properly agree on what "majority" means in all contexts, in some it's "One option have more than half of the total" but for others it'd be "difference in votes between the first-place candidate in an election and the second-place candidate", as just one silly example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority has a bunch of variations and contexts listed, where it might differ what "Majority" is actually referencing.