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Re:Ask HN: Do you think the Turing Test is still relevant? on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:53PM (#34731282)
I think LLMs are showing that neither cognition nor consciousness is needed to pass.

Ask HN: Do you think the Turing Test is still relevant?

I know avid users of ChatGPT who say their clients can't tell the difference between human vs bot generated content/conversations.It can be argued that a system can be said to "pass the test" only if it was interrogated by an expert, and the expert still failed to distinguish it.But the systems continue to improve at a fast pace. And at this point it seems like we are in the beginning of a...

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All 3 examples you cited are straight out clear cases that shouldn't be up for debate.

Most positive people who do belong in the team would be persuaded by your arguments quickly.

For those that don't, what you're missing is authority.

Go talk to this person's manager, and tell them this is not acceptable and that they're creating a mess for the team.

The manager must have the talk with them. The solution starts here.

And you can offer the manager "your help" to guide this person to "improve their performance".

And then since you're the tech lead, you can say to an egregious PR: "this PR is not going in until you make so and so changes".

Foot down, no cute debates.

What is the most important thing to know about contract work, for someone who had only done full-time employment jobs before?

E.g. Do you need to be an some online platform to get projects? How do you protect yourself from financial abuse (someone not paying you)? Do you need a lawyer at all times? Should you create a legal entity of some sort so you're a "company" and use that instead of getting projects as an individual?

I see the benefit of that. At my previous jobs, I worked on some big name products in use today. I don't have a public personal dev repo profile (with all of those years working under heavy NDAs).

The private projects I worked on afterwards were minor pet projects for day-to-day life improvements (I don't think those matter).

I think this is maybe one place to begin with: create some public projects.

Thanks.

Ask HN: Getting back to the hiring scene post-hiatus (& all the tech layoffs)?

3 years ago I quit my job at a big tech company in order to attend to a family issue. And after that and with the pandemic, I realized I needed some time away from work to try and catch up to my life as a person, as I used to work a lot, and use some of my savings early.I was hoping to get back to working later this year or early next year, but the news looks more and more grim by the day, with...

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