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>Can't help but draw parallels with the covid-19 pandemic

That is very clearly the intent of the article and a fantastic reason to write it off as social media garage and stop reading it.

Crazy how these days even the native Texan palm tree is in trouble.

You can't even define toxicity in an objective and verifiable way, because it's inherently subjective.

Trying to make rules for a machine to behave in a decidedly nontoxic way is a fool's errand, then.

You're also assuming that AI is going to be used to heavily influence people's lives, but there's a good chance that all it's good for is ripping off copyrighted material and generating clipart that's good enough for powerpoint presentations.

AI is probably going to change the world in the way that NFTs did. And self driving cars. And the Alexa.

I hope it never optimizes around this. There are a million ways to organize information and "leaving it all over the fuckin place in case I ever need it" is not an organization method, it's the absence of one.

Then again I do love seeing people have fifteen million tabs open, it helps me set my expectations about what they can handle.

IDK about this guy, maybe just trolling, but when I was hiring I realized you can really tell from indirect information. Name and college name will give you a real strong guess.

It was weird because I was just trying to avoid h1-b applicants since I was told we weren't doing that, but I quickly realized that I was optimizing against indian people and also that taking bias out of the hiring process is a lie that HR tells itself for legal liability reasons.

About a year ago, I sent out over a hundred resumes, got 3 callbacks, most of which weren't serious, and then there was one job I wrote a cover letter for because I matched everything they were looking for and handily got the job.

So it's both impossible and very very easy.

I think tech hiring is going to be a knife fight for a long time, because we're long past the point where only the thoroughly interested are looking for jobs in this industry, and there's so much money in the field that competition is high enough for people to take "towers of hanoi in optimized big o" interview tests seriously (probably because they cut the candidate field down to a manageable number)

>For those that have gone remote, any specific insights?

Be ready to manage your time, it's very easy to let 15 minutes off for chores turn into blowing off a whole day.

idk about the dartboard analogy, doesn't really explain what the article's talking about.

Honestly what the article's talking about reminds me of that old qbasic game gorillas, where you set angle and force you're throwing with, and then after the throw lands you can use the result to adjust your angle or force accordingly.

The government can do whatever it wants as long as they pass a law and you respect it.

"Hello I'm agent smith from federal agency group, costco said you bought some gold, where is it?"

"lost it"

"Mind if we search your house?"

"i've known you were going to ever since I bought the gold; knock yourself out. Just please don't disturb my antique collection of locked filing cabinets. They're all empty but the keys are in that big pile over there"