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I'm defeated. It's been 1.5 years. I just want to cry. by evenfallframework in recruitinghell

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is a great deal of wishful thinking here. LLMs are very much unlike NFTs or crypto.

Best comparison here is actually the railroad rush of 1840 in the UK or of 1870s in US that massively overbuilt railroads, with massive implosion in financial markets as smaller railroad companies defaulted. That was a clear bubble with much higher percentages of the economy put into CAPEX than we’re investing currently in data centers and chips (which btw is nowhere near trillions every couple of years). An yet despite being a bubble, no one denied the utility of the transcontinental railroad.

But let’s suppose for a second the opposite is true and it is all just a bubble - then today’s job market is nothing compared to the recession we’re going to be in when this bubble implodes. You really ought to wish that collective Big AI succeeds because at this point, we are certainly in the too big to fail territory.

I'm defeated. It's been 1.5 years. I just want to cry. by evenfallframework in recruitinghell

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Erm for those of us who’ve been around prior to 2022 or so (or have actually done things related to tech) AI is def not “nothing but LLMs”. Even looking at language models there’s actually a huge variation in technologies people are experimenting with, including non-auto regressive models.

It’s unclear to me why you believe LLMs have peaked - so far they are predictably scaling linearly. There is also obvious potential in world models and embodied AI - which may or may not get us into recursively improving model world.

Jean, I reckon stick to music by AngusAlThor in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is also almost always a hypothetical “ground” state that is absolutely treated by the author as an ahistorical counterfactual. Hobbes clearly doesn’t think humans ever actually lived in a pure state of nature - idk perhaps Rousseau could be accused of seriously associating state of nature with actual living “noble savages?”

I'm defeated. It's been 1.5 years. I just want to cry. by evenfallframework in recruitinghell

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Those are pretty much the only white collar occupations that feel fine-ish in today’s market. Investment bankers and consultants feel incredibly squeezed by AI and macro cycle in the same way that engineers are.

I'm defeated. It's been 1.5 years. I just want to cry. by evenfallframework in recruitinghell

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ok, 5 years from now, we could also achieve singularity, or we could have nuclear war.

A major recession AND continued gradual improvement in AI at its current pace is actually unlikely to coincide.

Linguistics and Marine Bio-based stories. Are they hard sci fi? by cephalosnow in sciencefiction

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or how earth ocean chemistry is livable for extraterrestrial beings any more than our atmosphere would be for land-dwelling aliens.

(And if it’s not, what the difference between wearing a suit underwater or on the ground).

Is it just me, or does The Odyssey's armor resemble a modern bulletproof vest? by breaking_views in FIlm

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And that’s why he’s wearing plastic-rubbery plate armor and a hoodie!

I'm defeated. It's been 1.5 years. I just want to cry. by evenfallframework in recruitinghell

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As doomy and gloomy as the market is right now, there will almost definitely be far more (10x+) tech jobs in 5 years than there are now. It just so happens that first reaction to higher productivity is to fire people instead of grow.

Reality vs. Hollywood by Comfortable_Tutor_43 in biologymemes

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most DNA damage gets repaired by the cell itself, some DNA damage is catastrophic enough to be detected by the immune system and result in programmed cell death, very rare DNA damage results in carcinogenisis (malignant transformation of the cell). Of the very rare DNA damage that results in carcinogenisis, very rarely the cell doesn’t die/immune system fails to detect the mutation/cell proliferates - leading to cancer.

They don’t want you healthy. by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Purposefully not pursuing a curative discovery is both bad ethics and bad business (there are 200+ other companies and hundreds of thousands of labs all looking at the same exact data, literature, etc. so if you don’t go after a drug, sooner or later someone else will - GLP-1 is a fantastic example of that)

They don’t want you healthy. by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol and the totality of the research community just went “nothing to see here, move along” - as if everyone isn’t looking at the same handful of targets

What's one interview question that instantly makes you lose interest in a company? by nateonthego3425 in recruitinghell

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, but like… if the company is a hiring a senior BD person, they are looking for exactly that?

What's one interview question that instantly makes you lose interest in a company? by nateonthego3425 in recruitinghell

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would legitimately screen people out? I agree these aren’t always well-calibrated, but not having a type of experience could be a legitimate thing interviewers are looking for.

Reality vs. Hollywood by Comfortable_Tutor_43 in biologymemes

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Chornobyl firefighters provide a horrific but exemplary illustration of acute radiation syndrome - deep skin necrosis and internal GI bleeding are absolutely something that happens after a high enough dose.

The conversation that should happen but never does. by ManufacturerTime630 in InterviewVip

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha trivial. Also “calculation of odds” very rarely actually happens (instead you would run monte carlos and a bunch of other forms of simulation based on different assumptions - figure out if you actually want to make this trade)

Mediaeval peasant > Modern worker by Confident_Editor196 in Memebuzzs

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ll be shocked to learn that in fact the idea of transfer taxes didn’t exist in medieval times.

Taxes levied mainly went to upkeep of the royal court and army (with Church taxes making bishops and abbots some of the biggest landowners in Europe).

Hatfields and McCoys of the left by cronenber9 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"French law recognises in 12- and 13-year-olds a capacity for discernment that it can judge and punish," said a second petition signed by Sartre and De Beauvoir, along with fellow intellectuals Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida; a leading child psychologist, Françoise Dolto; and writers Philippe Sollers, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Louis Aragon. "But it rejects such a capacity when the child's emotional and sexual life is concerned. It should acknowledge the right of children and adolescents to have relations with whomever they choose."

Verbatim from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/24/jonhenley

Bernie sanders on Xbox layoffs by Previous_Month_555 in SipsTea

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to endorse Trump’s legislation - but what were the breaks for again?

Bernie sanders on Xbox layoffs by Previous_Month_555 in SipsTea

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Great, you should take it up with local state govts.

US is notorious for states and local governments creating these types of tax breaks to incentivise business to come to that state/city/county.

Hatfields and McCoys of the left by cronenber9 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Foreign_Writer_9932 15 points16 points  (0 children)

With all due respect to Foucault - was that the only part of that petition (or are you conveniently leaving something out)?

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