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  "description": "Even LLMs struggle with triple-negatives.",
  "path": "/2025-11-26-a-triple-negative-pretzel/",
  "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T15:20:27.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I could not fail to disagree with you less. — Boris Johnson\n\nMy interpretation of this ridiculous sentence:\n\n\"fail to disagree\"* *equates to \"agree\", therefore, with some substitution:\n\n\"I could not agree with you less\" suggests you're at the maximum end of the disagreement scale.\n\nRegardless, I asked both ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini what the *plain English *meaning of this statement was and got two completely opposing answers:\n\nChatGPT described the sentence as a *triple-negative pretzel, *with the plain English meaning: I completely disagree with you.\n\nClaude and Gemini both stated the opposite: I totally agree with you.\n\nSo what does it mean?",
  "title": "A Triple-Negative Pretzel"
}