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I did it a couple of years ago. Just left and accepted a slightly lower compensation in a non-FAANG company, but still a very respectful salary.

Didn't regret it for a moment.

My advice is to just fire some CVs, do some interviews, and see if any of the offers you will eventually get make sense for you, in terms of the ratio of Compensation vs. Responsibility. While you are still employed, you can always refuse offers.

And now it's time to throw this account away. Cya.

> I couldn't imagine being forced to work in a job that I no longer wanted to work.

Well, that is easier. Just show up drunk and tell your boss to fuck off. Piss on his door if his office has one.

They will terminate you immediately with just cause and you'll be free.

Otherwise just be professional and give them the proper notice period. Being professional is not hard.

The UK, thankfully, is not part of the EU anymore however.

I don't think labor protections are eroding however. Those tend to be very popular among the population here.

Perhaps I am wrong? Do you have more information about this?

I know that there are some leeways to avoid labor protections in some places, such as being employed as a temporary contractor, but I understand there are some limitations to this practice.

Yes, that tends to be true.

On the other hand, a lot of things influence employment beyond labor protection as well.

It doesn't really matter either way. Unemployed people in most EU countries do have access to healthcare, benefits that keep them from starving, etc.

Not a paradise, but not a hellhole.

Is that not related in a roundabout way?

Part of the reason the US has dismal social security is the same "dog eat dog" hyper individualistic mentality that is also present in people thinking it's their sacred right to own assault rifles and shit.

At least that's my impression from the outside. I never really went to the US to taste it first hand.

I never had a problem with extended notice periods. The companies hiring me know full well how the law operates.

It offers me no disadvantage. Only upsides.

> How is this legal, in the famously pro-labor EU?

Because it's actually pro-labor.

I go into a job knowing an employer cannot simply fire me out of the blue. Meaning I have a little stability to be able to plan my life a few months in advance.

The fact that Europe has a strong labor laws, worker unions and such is the reason why I chose to migrate to Europe and disregarded the US as a destination. A decision I never came to regret, by the way.

Keep that awful "at will employment" to your side of the pond, thank you.

> I don't understand why it's necessary to treat employees with such sudden distrust

To be honest, every employee should treat their employers with the same level of distrust.

It's important to have mutual mistrust as baseline for a healthy professional relationship.

> Each to their own, but I wouldn't hire you

It's okay, a lot of other companies do. There's plenty of fish in this particular ocean.

Even if you would hire him, nothing meaningful would change.

As I said, this makes me very confused. Face to face communication tend to be absolutely inefficient in my experience.

They are a hindrance more often than not.

You just described with incredible precision my approach to jobs and career.

The only difference is that I make a point of leaving my current job in 18 to 24 months. That is the sweet spot. No matter how good or bad I think the job is. Always get a raise in the switch. Rinse and repeat. I actually avoid getting promotions in whatever is my current job, those are detrimental, seldom the raise is compatible with the increase in responsibility.

I worked for companies I liked and for companies I personally hated, the procedure is always the same. Has been working wonders for me in the past 2 decades.

> Face to face collaboration is a lot more efficient.

That's really not my experience. I'm always very confused when I see this statement being thrown around as if it was a universal truth. Perhaps depends on your role?

Honestly, for all the companies I worked in the past decade, the ones where I had better quality communication were the ones where I worked remotely.

Then again, I'm a software developer. Developers tend to be good at communicating through pull requests, documentation, screen sharing and text-based chat where you can send snippets.

I actually think AGI will bring about the collapse of civilization, and perhaps the end of humanity. I'm okay with it.

I also think it will solve things such as energy and space travel. World hunger, medical science (among other human problems) will become meaningless.

"Rejoice glory is ours / Our young men have not died in vain / Their graves need no flowers / The tapes have recorded their names"

This is actually an interesting reply, and something I did not consider.

To me, the most impressive part of ChatGPT was not that it could give mostly correct answers to known problems. In a sense, internet search could do it already (just in a much more cumbersome way), with similar degrees of correctness.

The most impressive part for me was actually how seamlessly it parses and produces fluent natural language. Text generated by it reads like something a human would type.

So far I didn't try to fool it by purposefully asking something ambiguous (something that is a characteristic of natural languages), or ask about something that has an ambiguous answer to see how it handles it, but so far I'm impressed.

But I never considered that people may restrict the research of AI to language models due to the rampant success of this avenue of research. I hope this is not the outcome, but I wouldn't be surprised (i.e. the success of ChatGPT works as a blackhole for investment in the area, with everyone racing to cash in on it).

And I still need to hire and accountant to do my taxes every year.

Just throwing numbers on a spreadsheet didn't do the trick.

> Sure. But will that be the case 5-10 years from now?

Not with language models. A language model can parse natural language, and with enough training data, give out what it thinks the answer is based on the data it was trained with. It is not General AI.

It cannot reason a solution for a problem that had an unknown answer. It won't be able to reflect logically on a context to foresee problems within this context. It cannot have a meaningful conversation. It won't be able to understand that one of the things it "knows" was incomplete, untrue, or just plain wrong, and fix itself.

It's a powerful tool, a game-changing tool. Perhaps as game-changing as the advent of computers, internet, or wireless communication. But it still won't replace humans.

General AI for now is science fiction. Perhaps this is unfortunate. I wouldn't mind an AI that can replace humans, even if I too am made obsolete with it.

When all you have is a hammer, all problems look like nails?

I'm genuinely impressed about ChatGPT, and have been thinking about many times in the past when having such a tool at hand would have been massively helpful. Natural Language Processing is a damn hard problem, and ChatGPT seems to be a huge advancement in that regard.

But I actually laugh at all the people that think that this will replace humans in any meaningful capacity. If your job is only giving known answers to known problems, then you have something to fear. Otherwise this will only be a powerful productivity tool.

A Language Model will replace software developers much like Excel replaced accountants.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but answering questions for known answers is precisely the kind of thing a well trained LLM is built for.

It doesn't understand context, and is absolutely unable to rationalize a problem into a solution.

I'm not in any way trying to make it sound like ChatGPT is useless. Much to the opposite, I find it quite impressive. Parsing and producing fluid natural language is a hard problem. But it sounds like something that can be a component of some hypothetical advanced AI, rather than something that will be refined into replacing humans for the sort of tasks you mentioned.

Probably even more upvoted?

That's the pattern I normally see online, people tend to be sympathetic to victims.

> So you have nothing to say about the blatant disproportional censorship that goes on to this day? Electoral justice court judges that openly favored Lula? Who even admitted to it and were proud of their partiality?

There was no censorship. Throwing around baseless claims of fraud in order to create an environment for a coup should definitely not be allowed.

> Did you read it? The Makefile that builds the voting machine software downloads and links unaudited closed source third party libraries from the internet.

Yes, the application uses closed-source software from 3rd party vendors. Like most software. This is not evidence of any wrongdoing.

> You actually trust this?

Yes. I use closed source 3rd party software for a lot of things, such as managing my investments, software development at work, etc.

> Besides, they don't have to prove fraud.

When they want to claim that fraud happened, they absolutely need to prove it.

Especially considering that they won the election in 2018 and many of Bolsonaro supporters were surprisingly elected, even when polls pointed that they would likely lose.

> Can you elaborate on this? Because what I saw was huge masses of people begging them to do something and being ignored.

"Huge masses" is an overstatement. It's clearly a minority of Bolsonaro's most rabid supporters.

Is MST did similar protests in highways they would be dispersed with brutality. But this time around the police and.military were full of warm fuzzy feelings towards the protesters that were claiming for a coup.

Hell the generals even sent a ridiculous "letter to the people" calling the protests legitimate, when they are blatantly illegal (there is actually a law forbidding any demands for a coup). They should all be arrested.

> What support did he screw up? Because it looks like he had none to begin with.

You are delusional. Jair had a surprisingly easy time in the first few months of government, especially considering he elected a huge amount of congressman on the wave of Bolsonarism in 2018.

But he managed to openly insult all possible countries that could support a coup - he is so retarded that managed to offend both China and USA governments many times during his ridiculous presidency. Not easy to put those two on the same side of the table. He also offended the EU multiple times.

And internally he managed to get even institutions such FEBRABAN and FIESP (that are notoriously against Lula) to distance themselves from him after that pathetic event in July when he had a meeting with a bunch of ambassadors to complain that the voting machines were untrustworthy.

> And I suppose yours is better

Absolutely.

I don't even like Lula btw. I voted for Tebet, and I am positive that Lula's 3rd term will be a disaster.

However, Bolsonaro would be even worse.

The only thing insane about this election was how he blatantly disrespected the law by increasing government spending in the months prior to the election.

Multiple institutions verified the results of the election system. The "armed forces report" says only that they cannot prove that no fraud happened, but they failed to find a single evidence of fraud. It's important to contextualize this properly, the armed forces were fully willing to support Bolsonaro in a coup, and only gave up because he screwed up every possible internal and external support for this.

After this all attempts to "question" the electoral results were an attempt to inflame Bolsonaro supporters that were demanding a coup.

I don't even like Lula btw. But your descriptions of what is happening in Brazil are just plain wrong.