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card_zero 84 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

That's wrestling with a pig. "You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."

I guess putting lipstick on a pig might entail some wrestling, but it's a different idiom.

SwellJoe 83 days ago [–]

I was actually thinking of "Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."

So, yes, mixed up idioms. But, the machine doesn't like arguing either. It is incapable of liking or disliking things.

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