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1. dwater+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-01-27 19:02:07
Quebec is pretty big so this doesn’t tell the whole story. To picture it as an American, travel from dC to Boston (known for its cold winters). Then keep going the same direction for the same distance again. You’re deep into the northern wilderness, but at the same latitude as the UK, which has a comparably balmy climate.
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2. kgwgk+Ii[view] [source] 2024-01-27 21:06:30
>>dwater+(OP)
ChatGPT says: "If you travel from Washington D.C. to Boston and then continue in the same direction for the same distance, you would arrive at a point with the approximate coordinates of 45.80°N latitude and 64.73°W longitude. This location is in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada."

Quebec is a pretty big province (with almost the whole population in the south part anyway) but also a city. I guess an American can easily picture the location of Montreal 45.5°N (30 miles north of New York/Vermont) or Quebec City 46.8°N (70 miles east of north Maine). Both are quite south of London (51.5°N) or Paris (48.9°N). (For reference, most of the US-Canadian border runs along the 49°N parallel.)

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3. peterd+Nz[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-01-27 23:22:40
>>kgwgk+Ii
This is exactly the wrong time to use a LLM. Case in point: those coordinates are not in the Atlantic ocean.
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4. kgwgk+7z1[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-01-28 11:38:10
>>peterd+Nz
Ah, you're right. I was too lazy to check. (I also don't know if the calculation of the coordinates is correct.)

Definitely not "southeast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia" because it's in New Brunswick and a few miles west of Nova Scotia.

Doesn't seem "deep into the northern wilderness" either, it's five miles from the sea.

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