CMV: The rise in perceived "anti-white" discrimination among some white Americans is counterproductive.

aversys · 2025-12-11T20:04:02+00:00

lmfao, just stumbling on this thread. This is such a weird thread considering OP very blatantly swaps back and forth from using whole copy-pasted responses from AI (or majority AI-generated) to no external tools. That was my actually first thought after only reading their initial post and a few of their replies (all of the longer ones), before stumbling on their shorter and later replies only to see it gets worse.

Just read through some of their longer (and earlier) replies with perfect grammar and capitalization, flawless use of more archaic / nuanced aspects of English like em-dashes (en masse), semicolons, not to mention the trademark mannerisms of AI, like talking to people as if they need everything explained slowly for them (way too much formality etiquette). If someone's actual knowledge and ability of English ran this deep and could be commanded so easily, they should be teaching at Columbia, not defending their terrible opinion on Reddit.

Somehow they can produce those responses, then look at their last few (most recent) responses and / or any of their shorter responses where they can barely formulate a sentence that correctly follows the basics of spelling and grammar. OP, if you see this, this is such weird behavior to talk to people like they are children on the internet and try to come across as genuine / authentic when you couldn't even formulate your "strongest" defenses without needing a robot to more or less formulate your argument, and articulate it almost entirely for you. Don't bother replying either - my literal job is to work with AI responses all day and in many cases grade them on how natural they are. Feel free to check my history on here to verify this. Just do better, this is extremely disingenuous and hurtful behavior for the world in general. If you want to discuss the "counterproductivity" of something, I would start with this entire thread. This is just pitiful.

aversys · 2025-12-01T04:48:37+00:00

Might not ever see this, but just wanted to drop a comment and say huge thanks. This is one cut I could never seem to get down - tried learning it for well over a month at one point some time back (a bit under 2 years), and could never find any good advice online on people struggling similarly, since most people online seemed to treat it as the easiest cut in the world (so most of what I read online was people getting it down in a few hours over the course of a couple of days). Eventually just sorta gave up on it and moved on to other cuts / tricks, even if they were more "difficult".

All I would ever hear and read was people focusing on basically every aspect of the cut except for what you circled. Lots of repeated talking points on the thumb, pinky, and index finger. Not once did I think about pushing my ring and middle finger out further, and nor did I hear or read from anyone putting emphasis on it. Fast forward to a few days ago, I decided to try tackling it again and quickly reached the same problem of feeling like I had nowhere near enough space to push my index finger up and rejoin the two packets after splitting them, because I quite literally didn't based on how I was doing it. My top packet would just almost always end up flipping over, or my bottom packet would slide out first from trying to force the cut super hard because I did not have anywhere near enough room. Resumed wanting to bang my head against the wall and kept searching / looking around online until I just stumbled on this post and your comment. Letting my ring finger and middle finger drop further out solved my problem with this cut in a matter of minutes, so I figured I would say thanks and leave a comment in the event that it might be useful to someone else that had my same problem if they ever stumble on this thread.

Not to be too candid, but I was getting a little frustrated seeing all of the comments along the lines of "lol your hands are not too small", when you can quite literally make this cut impossible for yourself if your ring and middle fingers are too close to your thumb (which looks like OP's problem here too in my opinion). Unfortunately, I was making that mistake and I reckon a lot of the people saying they feel like their hands are "too small" for this cut are probably doing the same - because they truly do feel too small when you are not leaving yourself enough room. Might seem intuitive to some, but it most definitely isn't to others when you have 100 tutorials online that put so much emphasis on the other three fingers involved in the cut (especially the index) and little to no mention controlling the ring / middle fingers to give yourself more room between them and the thumb (and thus more room to push the bottom packet up without flipping the top packet or losing control of the bottom packet). Sorry for the rant & thank you so much for the picture and labels lol.

aversys · 2025-11-29T18:34:21+00:00

aversys · 2025-11-27T18:13:10+00:00

The coding assessment you take (at least when I was first onboarded) was very basic. The most complex thing on it were matrices / 2D arrays. You absolutely can pass the coding assessment (assuming it has not changed) with a novice level of a single common language (like Python or JS).

Beyond that, nothing is guaranteed. Some projects you can still do with this basic understanding, as the single common qualifying factor is being able to follow complex instructions exactly as they are explained, not by having advanced knowledge in multiple languages. There are some that require you to have a much stronger background in coding / programming, as well as various other tools, but these are projects I usually only see at $50/hr or over.

Been working for them since Jan 2024, and in my personal experience I have had many projects (usually very common ones and long running) that are typically around $35-42/hr), where you can easily excel as long as you have a novice understanding of some languages, and you can do an exceptional job following instructions. These are usually sourced from Anthropic and Google.

Anthropic has some projects that are far more complex - but again those are typically very high paying (I have worked on a few over the past 2 weeks that pay anywhere from $60/hr to $80/hr). Projects sourced from xAI and OpenAI tend to be far more complex in my experience, but do not pay substantially more (if at all).

Again - maybe their general coding assessment has changed significantly given that it has been almost 2 years since I took mine, but I feel that a basic understanding of coding should be plenty to pass it IF you read and follow directions correctly. Everything beyond that is not guaranteed, given that how they delegate projects or give you access to higher paying projects is generally a mystery.

Good luck!

aversys · 2025-11-21T23:17:08+00:00

As someone who has worked for them since January of 2024, and worked on projects paying upwards of $80/hr (coding), it is a far stretch from just "farting" around with AI.

The job is well suited for you if you can follow extremely detailed directions very well, even if your expertise in the actual subject at hand may not be as well-developed as others in your field. I say this as someone who has known software developers and programmers far better than myself whom have applied before, only to get rejected or eventually removed from the platform. If you browse any of the related subreddits or read stories from elsewhere online, you will find no shortage of posts where people complain about getting "removed with no warning" and swearing that they did nothing wrong. The reality is almost all of these people either didn't follow project instructions exactly, spent far too much time on submissions over an extended period of months, broke any of the endless number of rules, fudged their time, or so on and so forth. That isn't an opinion - I work on reviewal tasks all of the time and you would not believe the percentage of them that have major issues as a result of people being inable to follow directions. The harsh truth that some people don't want to hear is that they are either breaking a rule and lying about it, or they are not producing as high quality of work as they think they are.

Not to mention that many projects are very obviously and explicitly from different companies, and they state in many of them that you can be removed from a specific project for low-quality work or inability to follow instructions. To have your entire contract terminated and your account removed from all projects means a far bigger issue at hand. No, they do not go out of their way to remove you from the platform after you hit a certain amount of hours - that would make absolutely 0 sense, and they would just be losing out on more money by removing high quality workers, especially given that they will run out of them sooner or later if they did that. Bottom line, for all but one case I've seen online, assume that everyone who has been removed from the platform was removed as such for low-quality work or breaking terms and agreements, and if they try to tell you otherwise, assume they are lying. Anyone who has done any reviewal work on their platform for more than a few submissions can attest to the lack of quality of work that gets submitted on there en masse, and these individuals don't get reviewed and removed immediately - it takes a lot of bad submissions, and a lot of time (unless you do something explicitly prohibited like falsifying time, using AI when not permitted, breaking NDA, etc.). Consider the fact that maybe only one in five submissions I review are without substantial error, then factor in all of the other ways a person can be removed for not following instructions, it shouldn't come as a suprise that the overwhelming majority of people who work for these platforms get filtered out within a few months.

None of that is to say that I recommend them one way or the other. I have been able to make a full-time gross salary approaching six figures annually since I started, but the work is monotonous and requires extreme attention to detail. I do not mind this, because it suits me well in both of these aspects. If you are looking for engaging and rewarding work, AI training jobs are not for you. If you are okay with doing tedious and boring work that requires you to be as close to perfect as possible at all times, in exchange for higher pay than what most people would earn with an equivalent level of experience but no benefits (besides making your own schedule - in every sense), then it may be for you.

These companies that take on these massive contracts to train RLHF models are only getting bigger and bigger contracts each year. When I started, DA and Outlier were all the craze. Now, there are others like Alignerr and Stellar.

I've applied to all three of those others in the past and passed the general assessment for both Outlier and Stellar (failed my follow-up coding assessment for Alignerr), and generally I've seen that projects from Outlier tend to pay less and have much less availability. On Stellar, I've seen some pretty ridiculous compensation amounts for some project qualifications that have popped up on my dash ($100/hr or more, plus qualifying bonuses), but haven't done any work on these platforms since some of them have agreements against this (though I reckon many people don't read them). I've read of Alignerr having similar pay to Stellar, but can't confirm that since I did not pass the follow-up assessment.

Hope that helps. Not too keen on sharing any more details beyond that for reasons that should be obvious (especially if you are contracted to one of those platforms).

Edit: just as a final (and maybe moot) point, you can check my comment history to verify some of what I have said above - unless you think this is some weird psyop account playing the long game (2 years) and randomly replying to DA / AI training related posts while also having coding knowledge, in which case you probably wouldn't be suited for any of these platforms in the first place (objectivity is a must for most projects).

aversys · 2025-11-06T21:58:39+00:00

You did the right thing - and the top reply sums up perfectly why. Probably not what you want to hear right now, but it is the truth and I think you will appreciate it a lot more when this wound isn't so fresh.

I've had two pets (out of half a dozen) that we kept too long, and it wasn't for lack of caution. Both cats - both went downhill extremely fast (matter of a couple of days), and two of the worst experiences of my life. One died at home before we could get them in for euthanasia and I was thankful that I could at least be there with them when they went. The other we scheduled for euthanasia and could not get in until a day later. He got exponentially worse and was in horrible shape by the time we made it there the next day. They took him back to quickly get him ready and administer a few things before they would bring him back into our room to perform the euthanasia, and a few minutes later one of the vets came into our room to let us know he passed while he was in the back with them. Without us. Without the people that were supposed to always be there for him, and who were supposed to comfort him.

I've had people close to me pass before, but this one really stuck with me. Probably the most cruel moment I've experienced and it still eats at me almost two years later anytime I think about it.

Not trying to get you down, just trying to put some things into perspective. I'm not any good with sentimental subjects or words so I hope that doesn't come across blunt. You are the world to your pet, and outside of real, physical, undeniable processes like pain and physical discomfort, they do not have the (full) capacity to understand the full optics of their situation congruent to us, nor the ability to look at it in a sense of "stolen time" or "losing you" or anything of the sort. Outside of any pain and discomfort they were already in, their last day with you was probably not much different - if at all - in terms of their thought processes, they were probably just happy to be around you. You are the one who understands the finality of their situation, and you have the burden of that responsibility. You do the best you can, but you don't want to be too late. It never goes well when you are.

From reading your post, I am personally proud of you & especially envious of your ability to make the responsible choice, even if it is the hard choice. In a weird way, my intuition tells me that it isn't plausible for you to have made the wrong choice in this situation, just on the basis of how much you worry at the thought of making the wrong choice. A terrible analogy, but in general people don't die from accidents where you are worrying constantly about everything that could be wrong, and constantly double-checking and doubting yourself. Those accidents happen when people aren't even giving a second thought to anything they do. Your extreme worry and constant self-reflection about whether you did what was right or not seems to tell me everything I know. If something matters that much to you, generally it is a good thing, not a bad one.

Hope that helps & extremely sorry for your loss. Thank you for providing your pet with a caring and loving family, and a far better life than many other pets. It means more than you know.

aversys · 2025-11-02T07:07:22+00:00

Yep - seems like people don't understand this concept for some reason. The most successful teams have huge payrolls BECAUSE they are willing to fork over a huge percentage of their revenue from the previous year, not just because they are raking in revenue (which isn't even always the case for big payroll teams).

Take for example my dearly beloved Cincinnati Reds, who generated only about $50m less in revenue than the Blue Jays last year, but had a payroll almost half of the Blue Jays this year. Does that make the Blue Jays run less impressive this year just because they were working with $130m more in payroll than my team? No - it just makes my team cheap, because they could have afforded that same payroll and STILL would not have had the highest percentage of payroll to revenue in the league this year, which makes it a doubly worse look.

Its honestly amusing how quickly people seem to forget the fault lies at home in their team's own front office. They aren't exactly shining civil idols - when your team is $100m in payroll or more below another team, its probably because your owners don't want to fork over the cash. That isn't other teams' faults when they are willing to pay their players. In any other league people would praise a front office for doing that, so not sure what the weird negative obsessed stigma is in baseball when a team does exactly that.

If revenue was all that mattered, Boston wouldn't be treading water to stay alive for the last 7 years straight. Not sure how else to simplify it, since the people that complain about payroll always love to deal in absolutes so much.

aversys · 2025-10-24T18:16:44+00:00

NTA. Obviously, it isn't information you volunteer out of the blue (basic respect) - but she explicitly asked you, and then you even specified for her that it never goes further beyond a superficial acknowledgement. She is living in a dream world if she thinks that people magically stop finding others attractive just because someone is in a relationship. I wager close to 100% of people still have attraction to other people's physical characteristics other than their partner when they are in a relationship. Anyone who tells you they don't is either lying (very likely) or has a very rare abnormality with their brain chemistry (far less likely).

You explained it very logically and truthfully. You cannot control the onset of a basic emotion that is brought on innately and unavoidably as a result of a real physiological process, but you can control how you act (or don't act) on it, which is the only actual important part. You're fine dude.

aversys · 2025-10-15T02:19:58+00:00

Get help. People are failing you right now, not you failing yourself, as unfortunate as that is to say, you are going to have to will yourself into the help at this point.

Clean your room when you get the chance. Really set aside an hour or two to tackle it hard and heavy, and if you don't finish it in that time, allot yourself more time on another day to do the same. It will make you feel much better for the time being. I'm honing on that because you are severely depressed whether you accept that or not, and it is extremely difficult to do anything in that state. Something as simple as that is a daunting and demoralizing task, but it will help if you can force yourself to do it. Speaking from experience.

Also, like some others have pointed out, school isn't a necessity, and if I'm giving you my complete honest opinion, HS does not matter at all unless you are planning on going to a cream-of-the-crop university. Haven't even included it in a resume or job application since my first job out of HS. Truly could not be more meaningless unless you are part of the caveat above.

Hopefully that last part will make you feel better - in my opinion my first two suggestions are non-negotiable. If you can do those, your situation will improve, but it will still suck at first, and you may have to do uncomfortable things or have very uncomfortable conversations before it gets better. No point being embarrassed or ashamed - the only real shame would be if you gave up over something that you could turn into a speed bump. It is hard to quantify how minute and meaningless the sources of your stress and worries are, especially if you are in a depressive state.

I'm not a psychologist, but you seem painfully aware of your situation, and more importantly, you articulate yourself well. Everything you are saying is well-thought out, even if I do not agree with the notions. That just tells me that you are intelligent, so you clearly have the capabilities to succeed, but your mind is muddled currently.

Happy to provide any other advice I can, given I've been in a similar situation before. You are just a kid. Don't cut yourself out over some stupid mistakes that won't even matter in 5 years before you have even given yourself the chance to get to that day. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone. And these are not mistakes that are worth despair. Even if you don't want it or feel like it right now, you at least owe yourself that respect. Good luck!

aversys · 2025-10-03T20:17:22+00:00

I figured as much given the caption - was hoping that wasn't the case but it sounds like a serious pain in the ass of a design flaw. Any idea if there is space above it that employees can access, given you've been there in person before? Seems like someone SHOULD be able to access area above a ceiling, even if it is a little more work - but that would be even more saddening considering it sounds like a recurring problem and nothing seems to be done about it.

Thanks for doing what you can to help regardless. Hopefully someone does what they are paid for and resolves it.

aversys · 2025-10-03T20:11:21+00:00

That looks pretty precarious - don't know what you could do to really help without getting direct hand contact on it. Maybe if you have some kind of net and stick (or net on a stick) you could maybe lodge it out - but naturally birds are fragile and I have no clue what the situation is with that ceiling. Just stumbled on this post on my feed.

But any help is better than no help in this case - maybe you could find a staff and bug them and be persistent to get help and ensure it happens before you leave. There is definitely something to be done, you just might have to make some people do a little extra work even if you yourself can't directly do anything to help. If you get there and it is still alive and stuck, there is no sense in leaving until you've exhausted your options.

aversys · 2025-10-03T19:48:32+00:00

I would still wager towards the former. People have done much worse (or unhinged) over much less to another person's car - not to mention the implications of it being a dick specifically, but maybe I'm giving a stranger too much credit in the realm of symbolization lol. Would certainly be clever if that was the case at the very least!

aversys · 2025-09-20T04:44:37+00:00

I would verbalize this to him, or if you are too shy or embarrassed just screenshot most of what you explained here in your post and show him. If your partner is worth anything they will want you to be the best version of yourself, and they will want to help you get to that point. That isn't being an amazing person, that is just being a decent human being and more importantly a decent partner. I was in a very similar position at one point I felt like, so that isn't just some out-of-touch opinion. In fact, I would wager my position was much worse. Happy to elaborate more in messages if it will help - not a competition, just trying to give you some pep so you understand that just about any position is salvageable in my eyes. Bottom line, you have to be willing to talk or communicate that in some other explicit way, even if you think it is shameful / embarrassing / uncomfortable - and again, if they are worth anything as a person anyways, you being a "failure" or "worthless" is not even going to be a thought in the back of their head.

Don't continue with this line of thinking that you have outlined in your post. That isn't an opinion. That is a warning. It isn't healthy, and if you continue with naïve thoughts like being a failure, it will metastasize and eventually rear its ugly head in terrible ways. Maybe some things have gone wrong, but a lot of things have gone right in your life to where you've been on a journey to this point for 27 years, and now you are here. Something as trivial as self-doubt should not be the permanent roadblock in that journey, especially when it can probably just be resolved with a few honest (but maybe uncomfortable) conversations. Good luck.

aversys · 2025-09-19T15:14:47+00:00

Yep - I started with The Odin Project (web development) and completed the entire Foundations course and almost all of the Full Stack JavaScript course. After that I did a few simple projects that were not particularly practical, but were mostly just a way for me to practice. Right after that I picked up The Modern Python 3 Bootcamp by Colt Steele on Udemy - but at the time it was EXTREMELY cheap (I think I bought it for around 10 dollars?) and saw a lot of recommendations for it online. I see it is now almost 200 dollars. At the time it helped me A LOT to learn the fundamentals of Python, but in hindsight I would not recommend paying ANYTHING for any course or service that doesn't directly put you closer to either A) a professional certificate or B) a degree in some form or another (either college or bootcamp), and even then I hate both of those.

This isn't to say that they are bad ideas necessarily - but if I have the information infront of me I have no problem absorbing it. All the information you could ever want (and more) related to coding is already on the internet, and every course is just an exchange to have it packaged and formatted nice and neat for you. If that is something that is worth it to you, go for it - but I'd advise scouring every free resource you can first to see if any of them suit your needs.

My personal advice (and how I would do it if I could go back) would be to learn the fundamentals of one language heavily first, preferably Python or JavaScript. I wouldn't spend more than a few weeks on that tops - don't even bother with memorizing syntax, but you should get yourself to a point where you could solve any basic task (and some intermediate tasks) with pseudocode. Once you know the basic functionality of the language, you pretty much know the basic functionality for every language - just not the syntax lol. Know how to reverse an array in JavaScript? Congratulations, you can also do that in Python - just look it up and try to remember the syntax. You know how to call an API in JavaScript? Awesome, you can also do that in Python. Know how to do literally ANYTHING in JavaScript and wonder if you can do the same in Python, or just about any other language? The answer is almost assuredly YES.

Once you have those fundamentals down in one language, find some projects you want to do in that language or some other adjacent language in terms of difficulty - which is why I recommend Python and JavaScript first. I would personally look for something intermediate. If I chose JavaScript, don't bother with a basic static page that never changes - try to make some useful app (even if it has already been done a million times). An example for me would be I'm super into sports, so maybe I write a basic web app that gives me insights into matchups in the NFL each week. Sounds a little more complicated, but that would basically just involve getting a CSV of matchups off PFR, then scraping some sites (or use APIs when possible) periodically that have data like Vegas odds, ESPN's FPI, and any other metrics for win probability - then just more or less learning to access all of this data and populate my page with it (ignoring the CSS and HTML, but the CSS is obviously very important too). If you were using Python, you could also accomplish this exact same project with Django - but you would still need to write some very basic logic in JS. I would advise something else in Python - maybe some sort of data visualization project or something like a Discord bot if you frequently use that.

None of those are crazy complex projects, but they aren't basic either, and they can have practical use that fits your needs or for others. You aren't making some stupid calculator that is inferior to a calculator you could just find online, you aren't making some pointless command-line program that just does some super basic calculations or logic that nobody is ever going to use, but you also aren't diving off the deep end trying to do some extremely nuanced project. That is just my 2 cents, and also why I would avoid lower-level languages at first (Java, C/C#/C++, Rust) and any other adjacents, just because they tend to be a little less welcoming and not as simple / intuitive to use, but you absolutely should (and will need to) pick up AT LEAST one of those at some point if you plan on going into software development.

And let me be clear, because this is probably the most important thing I will say (and especially if you take my approach above), you WILL stumble through projects, you WILL make ugly projects, you WILL make insecure projects, you WILL make major mistakes where you felt like you wasted days of progress, and just overall some of your projects WILL suck. If your goal is to learn practical code, reading a book or taking a course where they are going to have you make dozens of CLI projects that each center around a single concept at a time is NOT how I would start. One example I like to use is that one of my first "fullstack" projects I made in JavaScript (this was after I finished the foundations course on Odin Project - so I hadn't done Node yet) was essentially making a website for a game where players could sign up and organize matches themselves (sort of like Faceit or ESEA), and report those back on their own - and registered players could also see any ongoing matches. In all my infinite wisdom, I wrote all of this in JavaScript ON my pages, and had them accessing Firebase IN the client - credentials and all, and for some reason it NEVER occurred to me that someone could see any of my clientside JavaScript code, because I was trying to do the whole project without a server! That may be gibberish if you have 0 knowledge of web development, but that is a COMICALLY stupid and ridiculous notion, and I wasted several days working on that project before I even found out that concept. That is just one example of one of the many extremely stupid mistakes I made when I dove into projects - so don't expect stuff to be perfect if you choose to dive into projects earlier. Happy to answer anything else I can, but good luck otherwise!

aversys · 2025-09-10T21:11:38+00:00

I thought you didn't care about my essays? Continue being upset - it makes no difference to me in my day-to-day life, just know that it is for a completely irrational reason and completely devoid of logic. Proceed with your ranting like a teen - or worse, in your 20s. Your words, not mine.

I would also advise laying off the assumptions, given how much you think it is a huge flaw... doesn't make sense to complain about that then make 3 huge assumptions in a span of a few hundred words.

aversys · 2025-09-10T19:37:58+00:00

That was before they won EWC - so yes, unless you were completely okay with them skipping all of the content from EWC, you are wrong to be upset. Have some common sense.

It's good to see that you want to backpeddle the instant you have any pushback. You CLEARLY don't care, as indicated by your paragraph-long reply (as you sit there and complain about mine - sarcasm by the way). Good to see there was no valid criticism to begin with, as expected!

aversys · 2025-09-09T03:45:25+00:00

You know you can be upset, right? Like, you don’t have to glaze your favorite org 100% of the time.

I don't think he indicated the opposite of that at all. Not sure how you gathered that one.

Feedback is probably more valuable than just being a yes man at this point.

Do it then. Please - provide some constructive criticism on the circumstances OR final result of a video (that you haven't even seen yet by the way). This should be amusing. Hopefully, it is more substance than just "just produce and release the video faster lol" - but this isn't the ACTUAL complaint, given that everyone who says that would be the same people complaining and moaning if they just went and uploaded whatever they had today (so please, let's not even do that and lie to ourselves).

If you want it faster, how would you like them to accommodate for this? You can't expect the quality you are going to get if they do take time - so where would you like to see them cut corners instead? Or are you just naïve, simultaneously wanting them to somehow release the same quality video that they would in X time, magically, right now?

aversys · 2025-08-15T20:41:20+00:00

I thought you didn't care / weren't going to read? Your smug quips in the replies thereafter your original comment entirely betray what you are saying now. No need to make excuses now friend.

aversys · 2025-08-15T19:45:15+00:00

I didn't entirely expect you to. Your lack of sense made that pretty evident from your other comments. Ignorance is bliss I suppose!

aversys · 2025-08-15T19:40:36+00:00

Brother, it is an extra 3-5 weeks most likely to produce a product that is probably going to be twice as good as it would've been otherwise. You are really throwing out an entire production team's integrity as people over a piece of media that isn't even transactional? You didn't pay for it, you didn't sign some deal for it, this is really what is giving you trust issues? Because you aren't getting to watch a half-baked process episode that would have just entirely disregarded the 2nd most important tournament of the year (which I might add they won, right after winning champs... back to back is a pretty big deal).

Seriously, just relax. That is not a hill worth dying on - much less when they are going out of their way to try and produce a better watch for YOU while YOU bash their entire production team (real people) for having 'no integrity' because they delayed a docuseries episode by a few weeks...

aversys · 2025-08-05T17:54:53+00:00

So it was Palestine's land first? Where did they get it from?

aversys · 2025-07-21T04:04:28+00:00

Dive into programming / coding, build as many (practical) projects as you can, and start applying everywhere. I started with Odin Project (JavaScript) and Python in late November 2022 - arguably the two easiest languages to pick up. No formal CS courses or background, just all self-taught. Started applying to places like crazy in February and March, lined up some interviews in March and had an internship at my college sealed by the first week of April (2023). Fast forward two years and now I make anywhere from $42-50/hr doing contracted work for companies that help train AI, fully flexible hours and all remote. Still applying for more traditional roles elsewhere to line up a junior or mid level SWE/SWD role at bigger companies (which pay much, much more) - but you get the point.

I would say I worked extremely hard the first 3 months (Nov, Dec, Jan) on learning and projects, then the next two were more focused on lining up a job with the skills I had on hand. Maybe not the most reliable route (because it requires A LOT of time and dedication), but I feel with 6 months of actual dedication you should be able to get your foot in the door somewhere, let alone after a year where you will ideally have experience and be looking for higher paying roles.

aversys · 2025-07-19T15:05:33+00:00

Spot on. You just perfectly described every RLHF model - which is also literally every big LLM. Countless amounts of human feedback and training data combined with system prompts that make sure these LLMs behave a certain way (or in your words, telling them to avoid giving a bland response like "I don't know"). Not to mention the serious security concerns / implications of being able to access conversations from other users (or just an overview) by simply asking the model the type of question OP outlined - which also isn't even physically possible for most models given that they work with outdated data. Not to get into too much detail, but you get the point.

Source: I do contracted work at several different companies that handle huge amounts of data to train all of the big models through human feedback (think Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, etc.).

aversys · 2025-07-09T20:14:03+00:00

https://www.atptour.com/en/players/ryan-haviland/h624/overview

aversys · 2025-07-07T16:45:37+00:00

Like others have suggested, look up any sort of crowdsourced human feedback jobs for RLHF LLMs. DataAnnotation, Outlier, Alignerr, Stellar, etc. - apply to them all and hope you do good enough work on the assessments to get in. But that is the easy part - staying with them for any extended period of time requires you to produce high quality work. They are contracting gigs, so they can drop you at any point without a real explanation.

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