>The exact number of grains of sand on a specific, untouched beach.
Just saying "specific" is not being specific.
"The exact number of grains of sand on a Source d’Argent beach on Seychelles." Would be specific and exact thing of knowledge it does not have. It fails to name exact, specific thing.
It's like it is compelled to be unspecific and not exact and be generic.
"any given town.", "undiscovered ancient manuscript", "hypothetical alien civilization's technology", "of a specific person","random individual", "unidentified and uncatalogued species"
1) can't tell any one specific thing it doesn't know
2) when it does tell a specific thing it doesn't know, it's a thing it actually knows well
this train of conversation looks monkeypatched by openai bc it reveals a massive vulnerability in reasoning, but is consistently reproducible across all llms