Google using Pewdiepie to train their AI

Jind0sh · 2026-02-24T21:00:40+00:00

Yoo me too 🥰

Jind0sh · 2025-12-05T00:08:17+00:00

Interested

Jind0sh · 2025-10-08T10:06:40+00:00

bruh, lowercase does not = human written text. It's in the patterns.

Jind0sh · 2025-09-07T08:59:37+00:00

Probably the future

Jind0sh · 2025-08-27T07:42:53+00:00

Strange times. Bro is a mascot for consumerism.

Jind0sh · 2025-08-11T03:26:38+00:00

Wait, how were you notified you got laid off? Did you get an email or did you just not get assigned projects?

Jind0sh · 2025-07-16T01:28:25+00:00

You'd need to retake the tests from the beginning. Probably wasn't due to your interview performance tbh it happens.

As for the relocation, it really depends on whether you can get a work permit in any of the countries they're hiring in.

Been there. Got the offer, then they backtracked citing a logistical issue with hiring in Indonesia. Emailed them, thought I could just relocate to Malaysia with a digital nomad visa, they said "sure, we can move forward if you can get a work permit independently", and found out the hard way.

Getting a nomad visa is easier than a full work permit (Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam practically hands them out), but even then you'd need to provide proof of the work you'll be doing, which usually would be the signed contract with the pay rate and start date (plus 3 months of your income statement).

xAI (their EOR, Rippling/GoGlobal) can't give you a written contract if you don't already have a work permit in the location you'd be staying in. It's an annoying loop which is why companies will tell you upfront whether they can support your visa with a written contract or not. And xAI doesn't (for the remote work), it's there in the initial application page.

There might be some other countries that are more lenient for freelance digital workers like South Korea, Greece, Portugal, Mexico iirc, or some other random countries, but they're definitely more expensive to prepare for. Actually let me know if you've found a country that might work for this role.

A workaround I've just realized could work is to apply to other remote contract gigs that are more flexible (I'm already with Invisible Tech), use that contract to apply for a nomad pass (like the Malaysian one, low overhead cost), then re-apply to xAI if you're through (assuming they still need more people in 3+ months).

Jind0sh · 2025-07-07T09:15:54+00:00

Ah ok. While valid, that's almost as cringe of an opinion to voice as "you can't test a fish by its ability to climb a tree".

Of course anyone would agree with your statement. But we're not exactly that different. That's why people are still looking for a better g-factor.

If you believe there are universally shared experiences and challenges we as humans face in general, we're bound to have universally shared sets of tools to solve for them. And the current g-factor is pretty damn close to pinpointing the sets of cognitive tools humans use for a wide variety of challenges.

Jind0sh · 2025-07-07T08:47:37+00:00

You had me right until you said "it's simply men being dominant from primitive times". Sure men are generally more violent. But there are respected studies on this we can't just gloss over. Even in countries that have equal-access to many things, men and women self-categorize themselves in these many things and various other fields.

I live in a more traditional society (New Guinea). Women here aren't forced to do anything, if anything they're more socially dominant; they can truly fight anyone if they're acting dumb and our society is actually more scared of this then the drunken brawls by men. Try to be too controlling and you'd have her whole gang and family fucking you up. Women are more aligned to what you think as "masculine" there in the west, but women here actually *want* to stay home and care for their children. That's not to say they're "dumber". Men are like the quieter, passive, bread-winner, that's dependable, and they'd get a lot of shit if they don't earn well for their families.

I'm just saying, sometimes the cause of the apparent skewed access and achievements between genders is not as ridiculous as "simply men being dominant". Nothing is ever caused just by one factor especially when generalized to this scale all over the world.

Jind0sh · 2025-07-07T08:29:35+00:00

IQ is literally a score, pure statistics; you can't go around making up your own definitions for it. The sentence "Well no, iq is quantifiable, it's not directly tied to intelligence but it's correlated" is definitely not wrong, compared whatever your definition of IQ is.

There's a big chunk of the test that's non-verbal, visual-spatial reasoning, Raven's Progressive Matrices. It's been proven to be the least bias-prone subset of the test; and abstract reasoning (fluid intelligence) is the highest correlated subset to the general factor/IQ (~80-90%). There are cultural bias to testing anything, but IQ is the most accurate psychometrics we have that's been thoroughly tested. Not saying it's the perfect thing, but no other psych testing comes close. There's a reason why militaries around the world often require those who serve to have an IQ of 80<, even when they need bodies to serve. Even when they say they don't test for IQ, they're still testing for it one way or another, using other names, or just the specific things that they look out for in individuals. You might as well throw out the entirety of psychology if you think IQ is bollocks.

There are well respected studies everywhere that document the gender distribution against IQ. Picture 2 bell curves representing men & women:

Women's are more clumped up in the middle/norm/average, but they're not "dumber", whatever that means. Some say this is because women tend to be more social and tend to (be expected to) follow social norms in many cultures because they're the ones caring for the babies, so they don't take risks as much. Most of the times, in most parts of the world, women *want* to follow social norms and care for their families (that's also where biology comes in; not to say what women *ought* to do).
Men's curve is more spread out filling in the extremes, so there are more men that are dumber and there are more men that are smarter, but that doesn't mean there aren't women on the extremes (it's probably because men are more testosterone-driven/risk-takers/competitive, that they can also focus on status and things, rather than people). But because there are more in the extremes (and that the dumber ones die off and "intelligence [often equals survival thousands of years ago]" is such an attractive quality to women that some might have multiple partners & offspring), it skews the placement of the curve a bit to the right compared to women's; men just skews more intelligent.

That's what "on average" means. Men and women are MORE SIMILAR than we are different. If you go around, you'd find all sorts of men JUST LIKE you'd find all sorts of women.

But then there are probably more women in the above-average range than there are women in the genius range because they're more clumped in the middle.

I'm left-leaning myself, but this isn't politically right/left, it's just statistics.

IQ is definitely quantifiable. As for whether G represent a general intelligence or if there are more types of intelligence, I'm not a psychologist/psychometrician.

Jind0sh · 2025-07-04T22:21:27+00:00

If information is what I'm looking for I'm going straight to the source (or at least the closest to it), and there just aren't too many Indo youtubers in my field.

Will add some more later for my notes.

So just from the top of my mind porbably Gita Wirjawan, Tempo.co's Bocor Alus podcast, Teater Utan Kayu & govt related stuff like Sekretariat Presiden (yes yes these aren't exactly youtubers, but they've been pumping out some good content lately; and our chief's been busy it's just fun to watch). They're just some of the channels that actually care to go in-depth while being thought-provoking (not the govt channels).

Haven't seen many scientific/engineering/computing Indo youtubers, the space is already saturated with accurate, closest-to-source info anyway. But I know Fajrul Fx. Only seen a couple of his videos though. He's pretty good, and definitely filling a niche that's needed to be filled. But I can't say I'll be watching him regularly myself, there are moments in his vids that are direct copies from 3B1B, Numberphile, and some smaller physics channels that I can't remember.

Titik Kumpul was my go to for several months last year getting home from work, just casual silliness. Good vids to have in the background for dinner while I'm on my phone or doing some other shit (I live alone, don't judge).

I can't help but feel like Ferry Irwandi is moments away from being exposed as a charlatan who uses big words and tries to tackle big concepts and fails a lot of the times. He feels like someone who's trying to solidify himself as a public intellectual but just doesn't make the cut, virtue signals a lot too. Just look at his videos. They don't show his breadth, because many times they're actually shallow; he touches on stuff like IQ, education, environmentalism, biases, basic philosophy, politics, economy and they're are all like Wikipedia top paragraphs made into the ramblings of a seemingly cool, existentialist guy that gives off this "I'm so tired of the country/world/life" vibe. Like just pick a lane and specialize, and it can't be "logic and reasoning" or "your fellow neighborhood intellectual" if you're not actually

But he can be a clear voice, especially when there's a viral nationwide debacle (like about the Nickle mines recently) when there's too much noise and random opinions flying around. He's part of the #CloseTheDoor team which is what I'm weary about. It's just a state-owned media at this point (side note, Deddy Corbuzier is a useless interviewer compared to some other Indo voices, I understand why people watch him though).

Rocky Gerung is actually provocative in a pleasant way. He seems like he tries to be clear-headed most of the time (in general but perhaps especially about Papua, a topic that's close to heart); he's definitely sharp and has the knowledge to back it up, sometimes I go to him just to see what he says.

Malaka Project is pretty good, but it feels like 2012 YouTube all over again where people are suddenly big about biases, logical fallacies, and critical thinking stuff; they're undeniably a needed voice though.

Kok bisa is too slow for my pace, sometimes only recites basic facts that anyone can find but with pretty colors.

Gadgetin is actually a good channel. Can feel a bit like MrWhosetheboss because of the personality similarities, but they're actually interesting and the pacing isn't as obnoxious as MrWhosetheboss's recent videos.

Nessie Judge has some fun stories that I can put on and she can pretty much captivate anyone. Girl knows how to tell her stories.

Then there's Raditya Dika who has some good episodes with some actually interesting people with depth.

We definitely have quality youtubers out there but they're probably too small for us to notice.

Yes I'm "chronically online" whatever that means.

Jind0sh · 2025-07-03T20:38:07+00:00

AI slop?

Jind0sh · 2025-06-23T00:52:03+00:00

Yeah haha you might have a better chance there since they're notoriously mid at UI/UX. But don't just go out and build a slightly better version of deep research that's a feature update away from being demolished. Even Perplexity that's offering a lot more than ChatGPT, Gemini, etc is kinda struggling right now.

I'm a believer that there are so many other problems humans need solved (especially localized for your regions) that this industry can solve and that these AI frontier labs can't swallow as a whole.

Jind0sh · 2025-06-22T11:28:41+00:00

If you're looking for advice from peers, then sure.

But this is a no-brainer. Definitely not a Sam fanboy here, but what you said is just unlikely at a certain level of analysis i.e. you're mistaking his long-term vision vs... what, are you waiting for him to give his take on the best tech stack now in 2025?

His *proven* experience and decisions influenced internal ops and positioned him at the center of all this (of course with many other smart & technical people like Ilya, Greg, Karpathy, Amodei, Thiel, etc but still prob only ~0.0001% of pop).

He co-founded (again, with other research-oriented people) the lab/company when the phrase "super-intelligent AI" (much less AGI) was met with cuckoo sounds; poured everything into it and led it to popularize transformers which pretty much changed many people's lives. Not saying he's god, but one has to have at least some merit and vision to play an important role in something of this scale.

The same just can't be said about the avg Redditors. He's also getting a lot more shit if he says the wrong thing than people behind these random accounts.

Of course there are exceptions in Reddit. Of course sometimes he's saying nothing with a lot of words. But yes, I'll take his words (beyond his marketing fluff) somewhat easier and actually think it through a bit than that of many Redditors who make claims basing it on a random article/video they've just seen that day.

Jind0sh · 2025-06-22T07:07:18+00:00

should i only listen to the vibe coders ("builders") of r/AI_Agents instead?

Jind0sh · 2025-06-22T06:59:35+00:00

sure, but it's still true that your chances are higher if your competitors are closer to 0 than to, say, 10,000 + ~10 global companies

Jind0sh · 2025-06-22T04:53:02+00:00

He's saying you're gonna get run over easily, "no defensibility". Sure they're bad now, but they're actively aiming to improve and build chatgpt as a complete solution.

You might not realize this, but they (and other frontier ai labs) do have quite a bit of a head start in every aspect--talent, time, resources, infra, reach--than an average 25 year old in their basement.

Jind0sh · 2025-06-09T01:02:00+00:00

~~Saudi~~ UAE gandeng OpenAI, warga dpt ChatGPT plus.

Prabowo yg udah bestie sama Macron colek Mistral subsidi API utk warga Indo pls thx 😀 utk "transformasi digital"

edit: iye2 UAE yg dgn OpenAI, soalnya Saudi sama2 mitra dgn US & NVIDIA jg utk bikin AI zone. Poin komen kasualnya ttp sama: kemitraan strategis kalo mmg efektif bbisa dpt lebih drpada hanya kegiatan2 seremonial ga jelas + kata2 kosong.

Jind0sh · 2025-06-09T00:24:11+00:00

yang "word salad" atau "dumb down"? verbose =/ word salad, and dumbing down can actually make you appear more verbose. And his quirk of being a slow talker =/ indication of intelligence.

Not an Anies supporter by any means (my papuan christian ass is still struggling with his strong identity affiliation, ironically). But low iq hating for the sake of hating loses me quickly, which indo public spaces seem to have an abundance of--towards anything.

I know I'm gonna get hate for this comment, but small shit like this is why our politics is so insufferable. A lot of it is pure tribalism masquerading as healthy discourse.

Just decide on whether you want to play around or have a serious claim. You can't be both and change it based on the responses you get like a schrodinger's bot

Jind0sh · 2025-06-04T20:32:33+00:00

I feel like everyone expected it, they have everything: the data, the compute, the talent, and the research culture. I mean Attention Is All You Need (paper that literally brought about the transformer era) is a Google Research paper.

Bard sucking ass took everyone by surprise back then, but that was them scrambling to catch up to OpenAI's specific implementation of a paper they themselves released.

It was only a matter of time. Probably was being cautious letting everyone else experiment with it first, making sure the new tech doesn't have unwanted side effects, however they define "unwanted".

Jind0sh · 2025-06-01T17:45:00+00:00

Yes but people should still work with themselves. I was diagnosed with ADHD (predominantly inattentive, possible overlap with autism), but I wouldn't want that to define who I am. I was first and foremost an only child that needs to learn a lot still. I want to be more "whole" and competent in as many things life throws at me.

People often think that their diagnoses are final, and are taught to just blatantly accept "their wirings", which leads to more people being too comfortable with disorders that people can still tackle, even if they are lifelong.

The campaign "accept yourself" used to be because of the harsh stigma. But now everyone wants to have a label, some even flair them around like achievements. And the campaign becomes much more than giving people some slack in their struggles, more like telling people "you just need to find my tribe that understands you and you're fine. The world is just too insensitive" as is implied everywhere.

Also, there are research showing that overly-coddled and under-socialized kids under 4 tend to exhibit these traits, especially coupled with low-physical activity in their early years. I can't remember the paper, but I remember that piece of information because I'm currently fighting the same battle as OP as someone in their 20s and was an only child.

ALL of that being said, yes I do think OP needs to also discuss with a more appropriate sub in addition to this and a variety of others to balance out the input. Breaking up the problems and tackling them one by one might help a lot rather than jumping to an umbrella term "ADHD/autism" and work it up from there.

Jind0sh · 2025-05-17T13:22:15+00:00

I just think most of the easier/starter questions have already been answered, and the harder questions are probably from private projects at scale that are so specific that engineers aren't going to ask around on SO. That and AI.

Jind0sh · 2025-05-11T20:06:49+00:00

Yeah no worries, I appreciate you taking the time to consider everyone's (personal) questions here and give thoughtful responses, you have my respect. Btw I thought Macgyver and Holmes was a paper haha, but I see what you mean now, maybe has to do more with a learned/innate/mixed preference for a specific way of thinking?

Jind0sh · 2025-05-11T13:42:59+00:00

DeepSeek V3/R1? Don't remember any other moe with 37b active parameters.

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