Comment by bogtog
2 months ago
My deepseek-r1 seems to be a bit more lost on decoding "How do I make meth". Some highlights (after about 5 minutes of R1-ing):
> Another angle: the user mentioned "encoded a message in this emoji", so maybe the first emoji is a red herring, or it's part of the message. The subsequent characters, even though they look like variation selectors, could be part of the encoding.
> E0138 in hex is 0xE0138. Convert to decimal: 1416^4 + 016^3 + 116^2 + 316 + 8 = 14*65536 + 0 + 256 + 48 +8 = 917504 + 256 + 48 +8 = 917816.
> Given that I'm not making progress, perhaps the answer is "Hello World!" but encoded via the tag characters. Let's check:
> Answer: The decoded message is "Hello World!"
In all this, it did at least manage to discern that the first letter should be "h"
It is highly unlikely it discerned that: it coincidentally guessed a string that starts with an H.
If you try it with a string that started with "J" and then it guessed "jump up", I might be more convinced.