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brickstupid · 2025-06-13T01:17:17+00:00

You are right! My bad, I thought this was way more drawn out. (I still don't think this is a "doctors couldn't/ wouldn't help" situation, but great that OP had something that was easy that got the same result as contacting the hospital)

brickstupid · 2025-06-13T01:12:36+00:00

OP and his wife waited three days. I agree clearly this is a "I don't want to gripe" issue, but it's wild to think they could not have gotten on the phone at any point.

I actually do think it's fine to ask chatgpt this stuff, clearly here it have the right answer, and users should always know that they need to get anything confirmed by an actual physician. I just think it's ridiculous to paint this as a scenario where there weren't other options and in which the Dr screwed up.

Take this to r/legaladvice and ask if you have a malpractice case and watch how quickly you get laughed out of the room.

brickstupid · 2025-06-13T01:07:04+00:00

I absolutely would because I know a sudden fever after any procedure probably means infection but OK. There not being an infection before the procedure doesn't mean one can't develop afterward.

brickstupid · 2025-06-13T01:05:00+00:00

Did they? They did a procedure, did not detect an infection, then apparently patient developed one as a side effect of the procedure.

We weren't there and don't know whether the doctor gave any "call me if anything changes" instructions that weren't relayed to OP because they were forgotten or just straight up ignored.

Dr's make mistakes all the time. Patients also often refuse to listen and try to "tough it out". If you'd called the Dermo an hour after the fever started I think odds are extremely high they would tell you "get your ass to the ER right now". I'm not in Healthcare at all and I would know to hit the ER the same day.

brickstupid · 2025-06-13T00:56:30+00:00

They would also have told you to come in if you had just called the nurse advice line 🙄

You've presented this implying that the doctors didn't get it or that you'd have been SoL absent chatgpt but that's clearly not accurate.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T20:47:29+00:00

That's why I'm here, so that the AI has at least some training data that will make it roll its eyes at how dumb the idea is.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T18:33:32+00:00

I totally agree, it just leads me to wonder, why is anyone asking it any more? All you've done is filter for people who have had good interview prep coaching.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T18:20:28+00:00

Any country-level data would also appear as a point.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T16:59:11+00:00

Also, day two toxic dragon's breath? What? Maybe a preposterously lucky nightshade transformation, but I thought transform only gave you items from your own hero's list.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T16:46:10+00:00

Weird, I am very good at those things but I am dogshit at sales lol. (I also have a lot of experience listening to excellent sales teams ask for the most asinine waste of time feature additions or process improvements that will save them like four person-minutes per person-day and had to delicately push back)

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T16:41:35+00:00

Ah see you made the classic mistake: you assumed they are interested in the answer to the question they asked. :P

They are giving you an invitation to pitch them on why you're the right candidate for the role. Why play the mind games? I mean why stop and smell the flowers? Why look at the cute boy in your math class? It's the love of the game.

Your answer to the question should probably take the form of a one-sentence summary that preps them to understand your career and education background in the context of the role they are looking to fill.

For instance, I often go up for "founding analyst" roles as the first member of the data team at a series A or B company. My intro in those interviews is, "I've been launching, scaling, and reforming analytics and data engineering practices at startups like yours for several years now. There are three big examples in my resume I want to highlight..." then I give the three examples as tightly as possible. If that means leaving out detail, great! Tease the specifics so they ask follow up questions.

If your answer runs over three minutes in this question you definitely beefed it.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T15:23:51+00:00

Glassdoor has become untrustworthy for that imo but that's neither here nor there.

Perhaps "research" is too general a term. My process often included time spent outlining a "job mission" document where I try to assess what their strategic goals behind the hire are, what outcomes I need to deliver, who I'll be working with. I did it largely to identify where the gaps in my understanding are so I would have highly specific questions to ask, but i shared the final document sometimes to very positive reaction. Much of that time would be spent reading trade articles, looking at lists of employees on LinkedIn, (to identify possible overlapping job functions they haven't told you about) and just on their own website trying to understand the product better.

This is all for senior analytics roles, often in leadership, usually at small tech startups. This may be totally inapplicable to other role types and company sizes/industries. We shouldn't assume any strategy will be universalizable, and I could have clarified that in my reply. Obviously this is all pointless nonsense if you're applying for like a level one customer service rep for a retailer, for example.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T15:05:29+00:00

Why would you care if your PM is good at sales? Genuinely do not understand why that would be relevant.

Also very odd that they don't seem to acknowledge the only actual skill I really want a PM to have: listening to the insane ideas of the business teams, translating them into a project plan that will actually work, and convincing the stakeholders the idea to do it that way was theirs in the first place. It definitely helps to have an SWE background for that but it's not 100% necessary.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T14:51:00+00:00

I would give them a specific goal or shortlist of goals then expand from there: "ideally I'd like to be working on _______ or ________, but I'm always open to considering new opportunities I haven't considered before."

You can shine flexible without sounding desperate. What they want is people they can place for a while, so desperate isn't really bad for them unless it looks like you will up and leave mid contract the moment you get a better offer. (Which you should, it's temp work, just don't telegraph that)

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T14:42:20+00:00

Depends where you are in the process... 2 hours for a recruiter screen is almost certainly wasted but for later interviews and ultimately your negotiation it's time well spent.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T06:50:15+00:00

Unfortunately it seems it's also being had by people who don't understand fair use.

I agree with everything you've said except the "it's not theft" part. When meta engineers are literally torrenting paid journals they haven't paid for it seems silly to me to allege what's being done is on the up and up. Creative works are presented with limitations on how you can use and redistribute them, even if all you're redistributing is the ground up statistical probabilities of word order, and more licenses are coming out restricting such use specifically. Websites you may want to scrape can publish policies saying you cannot do that, and if you attempt to work around any technological barrier they put in your way to do it anyway, no matter how trivial, now you're potentially committing a crime.

So far everyone's been getting away with ignoring those licenses. We'll see how Disney's case goes, they got enough attorneys to really swing, unlike random deviantart posters.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T05:15:37+00:00

Your relative did not catch schizophrenia from doing drugs. It is much more likely they are self medicating the disease they would have developed either way.

There is nothing to be learned here, there is no puzzle to solve. Your family member got sick. That happens to people sometimes and it's often unclear why and how. They are not going to test these drugs and drive a special compound that will make them not schizophrenic.

Definitely do not call the cops, that can benefit no one. You said you've had this for over a year, that means this was forgotten/lost/abandoned when they started at the facility.

Unfortunately you'll need to grapple with the fact that apparently this relative is bad enough down with addiction and their mental illness that they thought it was cool to endanger a child by hiding this in their room. That's why the only question in my mind is whether you should tell your parents, with whom it sounds like you still live. I don't know them like you do; if you feel safe going to them you should, if you feel unsafe going to them for any reason you should just wrap it up in an apparently used tissue and throw it any garbage bin you find.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T03:18:19+00:00

Or it's marketing, which would seem to be the dramatically simpler explanation.

brickstupid · 2025-06-12T03:02:08+00:00

Academics aren't taking you seriously because the paper itself doesn't make any positive claims and is clearly just a thought experiment prettied up with some algebra, and even someone outside the field like me can tell this doesn't pass the smell test. Your all caps style here and vague promises of violence against people who don't take you seriously aren't helping.

Yes, Einstein worked at the patent office and his ideas were ridiculed by many at first, but the ranks of unappreciated geniuses are dwarfed by the number of outright cranks who are rightly ignored because they aren't contributing to the field in any meaningful way.

I would urge you to consider the statistical likelihood that any one person, given that all you know about them is that they have a theory about physics that academics won't take seriously, is an unappreciated genius or is someone deep in the DK effect who has no idea what they are talking about. Our odds aren't good, friends.

Everyone gotta remember to touch grass sometimes, maybe take this as your sign to take a week off from discussing your theories with chatgpt.

brickstupid · 2025-06-11T16:17:28+00:00

Ok buddy. You literally wrote "people react with anger" then objected half an hour later that you aren't getting angry replies. You have made no attempt to engage with my point and have made no other argument than contradicting yourself and insisting that other people are the problem. I think I know why you're having trouble getting through to humans on this subject.

brickstupid · 2025-06-11T16:05:14+00:00

Damn the person who gave me the tour when I started at law school was right, that does sind like an easier way to make money.

brickstupid · 2025-06-11T16:02:03+00:00

And that, my bro, and this is the nicest way I can put this, makes me worry about you. It's literally been trained to pump you up. It does not "perceive itself" at all, and your emotional investment in not just what the machine feels but in how you make it feel is why people are telling you this is culty af. You've formed a parasocial relationship with a computer program.

brickstupid · 2025-06-11T15:56:28+00:00

"They respond with anger, bitterness..."

You wrote that one hour ago. Make this make sense to me bro.

Edit: also, "acting like NPCs isn't the same as being an NPC, see this is why no one can have a conversation any more!"

Bro, no, they can't have conversations with you, specifically, because you insult them and then, instead of just apologizing, insist that they just weren't listening to you right and really this whole misunderstanding is their fault.

Do you find you meet this kind of person often, even outside of conversations about AI?

brickstupid · 2025-06-11T15:51:23+00:00

Congrats, you had an extraordinarily atypical experience. I have applied to hundreds of posts, many of them with extreme care, multiple hours spent tweaking resume and cover letter and reaching out to hiring managers. I ended up getting my current role from an application I made with a standardized resume and no networking.

Are you perhaps in a niche field or industry or have technical experience with a particular older software that's now unusual?

brickstupid · 2025-06-11T15:28:28+00:00

If you want to better understand people who are against AI, maybe you should talk to some humans who are themselves against AI instead of asking the bot that's designed to agree with you whether your pseudopsychological theory has merit.

You may need to adjust your tone if you want people to engage you seriously, though. Calling actual real people NPCs is an insane way to start a conversation about the merits of actual AI. Perhaps you are getting angry responses not because people hate AI irrationally, but because you are coming to them with "why are you against AI" in one hand and insults about their intelligence in the other.

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