> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language.
I thought it was common knowledge?
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's absolutely right!
I don’t imagine you meant to, but this triggers my LLM sense because of the way Claude Sonnet 4 responds to any critique.
Gemini thinking: The user is confused and mistaken
Gemini reply: That's an interesting and insightful question!
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#23> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. I thought it was common knowledge?
Of course! It also makes you wittier, taller, and better looking. Everybody knows that.
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#24test whether eating Teflon is a good way to increase food volume and hence satiety without increasing calorie content.
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#25> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. I thought it was common knowledge?
But now you can put it on wikipedia and cite a proper double-blinded study!
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#26If you're in the London area at the end of October, the Royal Institution is hosting a special event where "Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather on stage to ask each other questions about their work" https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/ig-nobels-face-face
> bonjour ca va? > > me not speaking a word of french > > consumes alcohol > > ca va bien merci et tu?
After consuming even more:
>> .. et toi?
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#27test whether eating Teflon is a good way to increase food volume and hence satiety without increasing calorie content. …
Oh wow, I thought you were proposing a silly experiment, but that was the chemistry winner...
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#28test whether eating Teflon is a good way to increase food volume and hence satiety without increasing calorie content. …
Yeah, I don’t understand how this study was deemed ethical, let alone win.
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#29The cacio e pepe paper posted here a couple of months ago won it in the category of physics: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/37/4/044122/3345324/Pha...
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