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Posts by Too Big to Fail

I mean, it boils down to just asking questions that induce the answerer to think about problems with the argument they're making or angles that they haven't addressed before. That sounds tailor-made to what an LLM is supposed to be.

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If you define "Europe" as "Ireland" then sure.

4 hours ago 6 0 1 0

I don't know, maybe don't call people "absurd" based on nothing at all and people won't get upset with you about it?

6 hours ago 1 0 1 0
That fact that all of you with advanced degrees, discussing the philosophical theoretical nature of work are pretending you’re some beacons of the working class is genuinely absurd.

Hospital nonprofits are not the feel-good nonprofits at discussion here.

Despite your need to pedantically argue.

That fact that all of you with advanced degrees, discussing the philosophical theoretical nature of work are pretending you’re some beacons of the working class is genuinely absurd. Hospital nonprofits are not the feel-good nonprofits at discussion here. Despite your need to pedantically argue.

Screenshot for posterity.

The idea that you cannot simultaneously be educated and be in touch with the working class and have a deep philosophical understanding of the abstract nature of labor seems like an insult specifically directed at me, personally.

6 hours ago 24 0 6 0

Deep breaths. Deep breaths. Deep breaths.

I have a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell; a law degree from Fordham; I have spent the last 30 years studying and working on "the philosophical theoretical nature of work" both as a labor advocate and wage-and-hour class action lawyer.

6 hours ago 21 0 3 0

Volpe's still at Somerset; he went 2-4 in their last game Sunday (GLJ homered in the same game).

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He doesn't turn 21 for another month and a half, granted, but right now the Yankees are trotting out a guy who plays great defense and absolutely, positively cannot hit. They have a kid who plays great defense and... maybe can hit? I don't see the downside.

6 hours ago 1 0 1 0

If your son can't make friends with "foreigners" sounds like a you issue.

6 hours ago 21 2 1 1

Dear Brian Cashman,

Ryan McMahon is hitting .130/.286/.196. George Lombard Jr. is in AA hitting .365/.433/.654, and is *at least* as good a defender as McMahon.

This is not complicated.

6 hours ago 3 0 2 0
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EV batteries are not designed to sit unused for more than 3 months at a time; it causes battery degradation. The median Ferrari owner does not even look at their car once every three months, let alone turn it on.

7 hours ago 1 0 2 0

There's somebody in my parking garage who daily-drives a Ferrari FF and that person is a certified hero. I have seen one (1) Enzo on the streets ever in my life. Cars are meant to be driven.

8 hours ago 13 0 1 0

Ferrari as a car manufacturer is nonsensical - 98% of Ferraris purchased spend their entire lives in climate controlled garages without ever seeing pavement - but the concept of a Ferrari EV transcends even that dumb business model. What happens to Lithium ion batteries that sit dormant for decades?

8 hours ago 13 0 4 0

... conversation you're referencing was a situation where Kathryn was saying "I have problem X, how does an LLM solve it," and a person spent, as you said, Herculean efforts front to redefine problem X to be something other than what it actually was. That's not useful in any way.

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...precise equivalent to saying "talking about coding is hostile" to a person creating computer programs. It's inherently baked into the thing, and if you find it wrong for some reason, that's just a sign that the tool you are using is not fit for the purpose being discussed.
C) The specific...

8 hours ago 20 0 1 0

B) Kathryn, like everyone else with a legal background, uses Socratic questioning to tease out answers to legal questions. That is how EVERYONE discusses legal reasoning. It's how every class in law school is taught. Saying "Socratic questioning is hostile" to a person discussing the law is the...

8 hours ago 21 0 2 0

I read all of your responses here, and I think there are three things you need to understand that you seem not to:
A) The overwhelming majority of people don't code. When you talk about an LLM writing code, you're talking to a miniscule subset of a subset of the population for whom that's relevant.

8 hours ago 15 0 1 0

... wut. Like, what? WHAT?

18 hours ago 9 0 2 0

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18 hours ago 13 0 5 3
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Such a good answer

18 hours ago 2 0 0 0

As a Yankee fan, I have to admit that Citi Field has much better food. Italian sausages are the bees' knees.

20 hours ago 4 0 0 0
THEY WERE MADE OF WOOD! THEY'RE GONE! IT'S JUST THE SOME WALLS THAT ARE LEFT BECAUSE THE WOOD AND THATCH DOESN'T LAST!

THEY WERE MADE OF WOOD! THEY'RE GONE! IT'S JUST THE SOME WALLS THAT ARE LEFT BECAUSE THE WOOD AND THATCH DOESN'T LAST!

I've spent a lot of time touring ancient churches in Ireland, which were all built without roofs.

20 hours ago 12 0 1 0

I mean, yes, this is not a good showing for Republicans, but I'd just note that of all the Republican incumbent Senators up for reelection this year who ran in 2020, only 3 of them won in 2020 by less than 10 points and she's one of them (along with Collins and Cornyn).

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Didn't realize that Finding Dory was getting a live-action remake.

1 day ago 8 1 0 0

On the one hand Trump calls every single Democrat a "traitor," but on the other hand Andy Beshear once heard a Democrat use the term "justice-involved people" so clearly Democrats have the bigger problem with disrespectful language.

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You had all of these beautiful civic buildings built before WWII in Beaux Arts and Art Deco styles, designed to evoke a sense of wonder and awe kind of like medieval Cathedrals, and then after WWII it just became "how cheaply can we do this" and it kind of makes me sad.

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Before the invention of structural steel skeletons, around 1880, your choices for structural building materials were wood (prone to fires and not terribly durable), masonry (super-duper expensive, see Tweed Courthouse), or, from the 1790's, wrought iron skeletons (difficult to work, not very strong)

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The thing is, he was able to build these grand schools more cheaply than schools had been built in the past through the use of steel skeletons (extremely uncommon in low-rise buildings at the time) rather than structural masonry. He also copied school plans to cut design costs.

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There's actually a fun story behind this: the guy who was NYC superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1923 was an architect who believed in holistic learning, and wanted to inspire kids to rise out of poverty by giving them a sense of the possibility of granduer through construction.

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Don't look now, but... the all time MLB record in K/BB ratio is Phil Hughes' 11.63 in 2014 (186 strikeouts, 16 walks).

Cam Schlittler is currently running a 12.0 (36 strikeouts, 3 walks).

1 day ago 2 0 0 0

Reality tv is the obvious one. So many shows out there that are popular because their subjects are despicable people.

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