| ▲ | bze12 6 hours ago |
| AI has sitzfleisch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#:~:text=... |
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| ▲ | password4321 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| My browser doesn't do the fancy URL text selection... sitzfleisch: the ability to endure or carry on with an activity Something Oppenheimer did not have, apparently. |
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| ▲ | wongarsu 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | loaned from German, where it's originally a way to say buttocks, literally "sitting flesh". If you have more Sitzfleisch you can sit for longer. Both in the literal sense (a bigger butt makes sitting more comfortable) and in the figurative sense (having the mental ability to sit for longer, get more desk work done) | | |
| ▲ | bryanrasmussen 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think there is an IT bit of humor from about 1 decade+ back where the people who's proposals won out in meeting were the ones that could keep from needing to go to the bathroom longer. | |
| ▲ | glenstein 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Fascinating crossover from literal to figurative that you find so often when you trace language back far enough. |
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| ▲ | RGS1811 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is fantastic. Now I have a sophisticated-sounding german word for my attention deficit. |
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| ▲ | spankibalt 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | There's also a less flattering reading of the word, where Sitzfleisch means having a "flat ass" (from sitting too much, e. g. Sitzfleischparade describing a group of flat-arsed people, or something like Sitzfleischmaxxer, and so on). | | |
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| ▲ | zenNeko 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This was such an interesting thing to learn |
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| ▲ | nobodyandproud 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| We Americans call it grit. |
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| ▲ | alex43578 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The connotation of grit to me feels different. Grit is pushing through adversity, rather than just tedium. |
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| ▲ | ashleyn 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Wow, what a great comparison. LLMs are great at reasoning but absolute dogshit at simple arithmetic. If there's a raw calculation involved I always tell it to use python to add it all up. |
