I think you missed OP's point. "Leads to" is the key phrase, and they're talking about how both ("Great Man" and "Inevitable Forces") theories end up being used as propaganda to support political purposes. Both (as you point out) have some truth to them, and (as you do) can be addressed objectively, but both can be transmuted into ideology,
I've studied and taught Shakespeare, and been professionally acquainted with Shakespeare scholars whose names (at least) other Shakespeare scholars know. That's an... eccentric reading. There's no "definitely" in literature, of course, and GP's reading can be made to work.
If I were to try to defend it in an academic setting I'd be looking for how securely or inevitably "groan" is used as a synecdoche for orgasm (I can think of at least three instances in Shakespeare where it doesn't, and off the top of my head no others where it does), and for other period instances where the neck is eroticized as a site of ejaculation (I am not aware of any).
I think GP assumes that Myazaki's films have transcended the "anime" label. They certainly have with me, and with most mainstream film critics. But based on the LinkedIn reaction, and your comment, maybe not? That's interesting.
I think Miyazaki films are cool, but I seriously doubt most people who aren’t film buffs will really recognise them.
I think many if not most people will have negative associations when they think of adult anime enthusiasts, therefore most people with good social skills would not put anime on their LinkedIn.
I also probably wouldn’t want to hire someone who’s holding a gun in their LinkedIn photos (unless it was related to their work), even though I’m a hobbyist shooter myself. I think shooting is a cool hobby, but I understand that for many people it’s a weird enough hobby that it would be downright stupid to advertise it in an unrelated professional context.
The problem isn’t anime (or guns), it’s the poor judgement demonstrated by adding pointless question marks on what might otherwise be a good profile.
I think we agree with each other, but also that you missed my point: the "mistake", as it were, wasn't to do with social skills as much as assuming Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli had crossed into the mainstream, which... It seems isn't accurate.
Though, I don't know: would putting any film background on a LinkedIn profile read as "unprofessional"? (I don't know; I've never used LinkedIn in any capacity.)
OP said elsewhere that the specific discount that produced the $10M sales + refund combo was only active at five stores. That's the sort of edge case that you can't count on being in the training data. I'm as big a fan of real-data testing as anyone, but there's always something not represented.
I don't know what you're thinking of, but mine are.
Practice of any kind (sports, coding, puzzles) works like that.
Most of all: interactions with any other conscious entity. I carry at least intuitive expectations of how my wife / kid / co-workers / dog (if you count that) will respond to my behavior, but... Uh. Often wrong, and have to update my model of them or of myself.
Yes, I am saying in both cases the expectations are violated regularly. It’s not obvious at all that an LLM’s “perception” of its “world” is any more coherent than ours of our world.
The only one I've experienced (Massachusetts) wouldn't catch any of what we're discussing in this thread. They put it on the emission testing machine, walked once around the car, maybe checked the brakes, and that was it. It was in no way comparable to the UK's MOT test, which is a proper inspection.
Maine also requires headlight aiming to be checked and compliant.
It's just not done though. There's a list of like 10 items to check, and you are only allowed to charge like $12-$18 for the check, so corners are cut, and your average 18 year old who was given the job of doing the inspection does not care, and enforcement is more concerned with the shops willing to give you a sticker for stuff that is outright criminal, like not really working brakes.
There's an acting exercise (it's from Joan Littlewood via Clive Barker) where one speaks "gibberish" - making language sounds, but not words - which, almost automatically, once they drop their terror of doing it, opens students up to all of those other avenues of communication. Later, you can switch students back and forth between the script and gibberish, and it becomes plain that if you can't play a scene as clearly (to those in it, not considering the audience) in gibberish as you can with words then you don't fully understand it.
Yeah. When I moved from the UK (back) to the US I didn't know any better, and spent a year or two storing (washed, US) eggs on the counter or in the cupboard for weeks at a time. Never had a problem. I absolutely don't recommend doing that, and now conscientiously refrigerate my eggs. I do not, however, stress that much if an egg spends a bit of time at room temperature. It's maybe a risk? But it's not very much of one, in my opinion.
