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(That was right after undergrad, and I've been ride-or-die Red Sox, ever since.)

I started out as a root-for-the-home-team sort of fan. Vermont doesn't have a team, and Montréal was the closest one we could drive to. And while going to those games, I became an Andre Dawson fan, and followed him to the Cubs with my fandom. I switched loyalties to Boston when I moved to Boston.

This season, though, the Red Sox have gone from dead last to Wild Card, so it's been a great ride.

It was kind of a progression of underdogs, I admit! I am also "in market" for Boston, right now, so I can't watch the games, either. I listen to them on the radio.

Meanwhile, my father is a life-long Cincinnati Reds fan (for Pete Rose reasons, I guess...), and my brother has always been a Mets fan.

He says, as the Red Sox trounce the White Sox, 14-2

#19: Most disliked popular books... I hated the Scarlet Letter, when assigned it in school. I have never been able to make myself finish Pride & Prejudice, though I've started it several times. I have never read the Twilight series, because I expect to hate it.

#13: Do you have a GoodReads? No.

OK, #5: Where do you buy books? In Vermont, I borrow them from the library, and from the Little Free Library in front of the real library. In NYC, at The Strand. I love the Strand! In Boston, I haunted the MIT Press bookstore, frequently.

There might also be some anticipation of regret... which situation would I regret more... taking the money and wondering if I could have had more, vs. gambling and losing and wishing I'd taken the money.

Agreed!

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It doesn't have to be for human use... I'm thinking more like one tool is the active user of a separate passive tool. (Or, I guess the second one doesn't have to be passive, but one tool is an end user.)

mm... but that's not the Kindle using a tool, that's a human using a page turner tool to make something happen on the Kindle tool.

... maybe ... let me think about that...

(for the non-Red Sox/non-baseball fans, Alex Cora hasn't been the manager since April, 'clean up' bats 4th, and Jarren Duran almost never bats 3rd. Last night, he batted 8th.)

And maybe Mayer... #RedSox

I'm just thinking out loud. I've probably said somewhere before that (actually) I think language itself is a tool, and a relatively recent one that we are still playing with to figure out all of its uses.

Or, perhaps it is more precise to say: For any given X, IF humans can do X without tools, then it is a false comparison.

The standard recent online argument goes something like: "LLMs are not human-level intelligence, because they cannot X." "But LLMs with tools can X!" "That's cheating." "But humans use tools, too!" I am saying humans could already X without the tools, so it's a false comparison.