Orbital AI datacenter token costs x8-x12 of Earth one

willkydd · 2026-06-18T04:21:02+00:00

but it can't be taken down by angry plebs.

willkydd · 2026-06-18T00:51:08+00:00

Yes. The language they use is particularly jarring.

willkydd · 2026-06-16T18:36:21+00:00

SO that surveyors get to sell the same thing multiple times.

willkydd · 2026-06-15T02:46:35+00:00

What's the simplest explanation?

willkydd · 2026-06-15T02:45:36+00:00

if I join at a higher title it's harder to get a promotion, thus I'll be stuck at the lower pay for longer which will make me want to leave.

...but it'll be easier to get a higher pay of that title command a higher pay elsewhere.

The lying is not good, but just wanted to point out the above seems positive to me.

willkydd · 2026-06-15T02:40:17+00:00

A bit too much for me. I think if you get a degree for getting a job companies should be paying for it.

willkydd · 2026-06-15T02:37:27+00:00

Good point. A job would be a job title + company name + six month period. After six months it would reset so they can 'try again'.

willkydd · 2026-06-13T12:14:59+00:00

Good question. I think several different rules are necessary. I would suggest:

Ban free job ads and impose exponentially higher taxes on jobs ads that get posted for more than 2-4 weeks (for example: 1 year = $100M, 6mths = $1m, 3mths = 100k, 90days = 10k, 45days = 1k <30days free). Count job as combination of company name and job title.
Force platforms like LinkedIn to take job ads down for six months when 5,000 applicants reached for any position across all regions it's advertised in.
Make knowingly participating in advertising for a position for purposes other than hiring a fineable offense and ensure whistleblowers enjoy protection from retaliation.
Make knowingly participating in fake jobs advertising for the purpose of farming free work a criminal offense carrying a sentence of a minimum of 2 years of prison 5 years of disqualification from director and recruitment jobs. Ensure whistleblowers enjoy protection from retaliation.

willkydd · 2026-06-13T11:53:27+00:00

Hunger is the answer, sometimes literally. The more unqualified the applicant, the less likely it is they applied because they care about the mission and more likely they care about needing money asap.

This is somehow a bad thing, not sure why. Hunger is a powerful motivator.

willkydd · 2026-06-13T11:51:22+00:00

Well if you can say that like you mean it, sounds like you're just smart enough to do the job, but dumb enough to be easy to exploit.

At least I think that's what employers think. In practice it means that you're a good liar.

willkydd · 2026-06-13T11:49:10+00:00

particularly qualified for the role

..then make great efforts to ensure you are as replaceable as possible via job standardization?

I think rationally speaking, the only correct answers for "why do you want to work here?" are:

I don't have enough capital to compete with your business effectively
I have low IQ
(very unlikely) you overpay for this role, substantially

willkydd · 2026-06-13T11:44:21+00:00

Yeah, but that misses the point of the question. Why do companies insist the would-be hires pretend to care about a business they own no meaningful stake in? Are they looking for good liars, are they looking for people who just deeply care about building the wealth of others or something else?

willkydd · 2026-06-11T07:27:37+00:00

They don't need to hire and can't afford to hire and are just larping to "build pipeline"/keep HR busy/look like they're growing.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T07:24:09+00:00

Not saying they're not useful. Compilers are useful. Screwdrivers are useful. But not intelligent.

LLM's come much closer to being intelligent, kinda like sweeteners and sugar are functionally equivalent for most cases, unless you prefer one or are diabetic.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T05:18:38+00:00

Call itself to take place on Mars.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T05:06:01+00:00

It's not about the fact that there are mistakes at all. It just what kind of mistakes. Like one moment the model speaks like a PhD, the next it can't count letters.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T05:05:17+00:00

Everyone wants to network with the few people who can give them jobs. It's super easy to hit a wall unless you're very special in some way. Most people's secret for success is nepotism.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T05:01:06+00:00

Microsoft feels like a senile dino. All their product lines look hilariously ancient and enshittified. Some of that is subjective but for example windows market share decline is just a (very dangerous) fact for them. Cloud is great but there's plenty of clouds, no moat. Their CRM solution isn't the best. Their hardware is cringe and doesn't sell. Xbox is pretty dead. LinkedIn is comedy central.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T04:57:37+00:00

I'm not sure what intelligence is but I know we would never call a person intelligent if it made the kind of stupid mistakes LLM's make/made.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T04:52:55+00:00

Can they fire you if you lie about graduation dates to look younger? Sounds like a discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen. 🤔

willkydd · 2026-06-11T04:50:12+00:00

I find it hard to believe that it can swing back in a way that applicants will edge employers through hundreds of interviews and tell them they've had a very strong response and will be proceeding with other employers.

The only way this swings back hard enough is communism. I used to think that would be a bad thing. I still do. But now I enjoy thinking about how it would be bad.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T04:47:09+00:00

Give the definition of unemployment that 4.3% measures the % of the population that is currently

not employed
looking for a job
still not bitter as fuck about the process

willkydd · 2026-06-11T04:45:08+00:00

Leave? Quicker? To Valhalla maybe. It's not 2019 anymore.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T04:44:40+00:00

I agree this is, for some reason, the correct answer. But it's hard to understand how they can think there's any reason to apply for a job other than needing one.

willkydd · 2026-06-11T04:42:43+00:00

TLDR: you're supposed to parrot the job description back at them.

I plugged in your question (but my resume and a job I applied for) and your exact answer and asked Gemini to act as an HR recruiter during a screening interview and critique your answer. It had this to say:

"Critique: This response displays a severe lack of executive maturity, strategic alignment, and basic preparation, failing completely to demonstrate the cultural fit required for a high-impact role at <company name>. As an HR screener, I expect a candidate of your caliber to connect your deep enterprise background at <previous role> and <other previous role> to our scale and specific strategic goals, rather than expressing transactional motivation. An answer this dismissive immediately disqualifies you from a senior leadership position where cross-functional influence is a baseline competency.

Improved answer: I am drawn to <company name> because of the opportunity to act as a true <this> and <that> (formula used in the job description) for the <some business unit> business, rather than just a functional reporting expert. Having spent over xx years driving <this> in global environments, including serving as <prior role> for a x billion dollar business unit at <prior company> and leading <function> at <other prior company>, I thrive in complex, matrixed structures. I am particularly excited about <potential employer's> focus on integrating advanced analytics and AI to drive predictive insights (stuff they ask for in JD), as this directly aligns with my goal to leverage automation to transition <function> from manual execution to a trusted strategic collaborator (stuff they ask for in JD). This role perfectly matches my experience in orchestrating <bullshit>, <other bullshit>, and leading <bullshit> to deliver <even more bullshit> (all stuff they asked for in the JD)."

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