I tried it with DeepSeek. Without deep thought, it chose heads and with deep thought it chose tails. The same thing happens in Russian, except that the equivalent of heads and tails are called ‘орёл’ and ‘решка’. Similarly, Claude Sonnet 4.5 chooses tails with extended thinking and heads without. Extended thinking seems to be equivalent to giving the model another chance. It might also be useful to ask a human to imagine flipping a coin, answer whether the imaginary coin landed on heads or tails, then ask the human to reflect on his or her thought process.
I tried it with DeepSeek. Without deep thought, it chose heads and with deep thought it chose tails. The same thing happens in Russian, except that the equivalent of heads and tails are called ‘орёл’ and ‘решка’. Similarly, Claude Sonnet 4.5 chooses tails with extended thinking and heads without. Extended thinking seems to be equivalent to giving the model another chance. It might also be useful to ask a human to imagine flipping a coin, answer whether the imaginary coin landed on heads or tails, then ask the human to reflect on his or her thought process.