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Ofc, eventually we'll all run out of that limited supply of experienced engineers, and will have to hope there's a cohort that's been training on these new skills, and is ready for employment. Meanwhile it'll be hell for everyone stuck in the middle of these experience levels.

The article talks about the writing "elites," who normally are expected to take pride in writing. But what about those who just find it fun and exhilarating? Pride after all is a sin, a predictor famously of decline. And perhaps that's what explains the willingness of those (maybe even including Fairbanks, this article's author) who see their relationship to their writing and their status in that world as one of pride to acquiesce in this moment of literary seppuku.

If you're writing, creating, communicating, to compete and be fêted, then you're predisposed to be seduced by a tool that can so quickly put badges on raccoons. If you're doing it to discover your sense of self, your use of that tool is entirely different and you'll naturally keep its output at arm's length from what you actually own as "your writing."

At any rate, even if all the boats struck were carrying drugs in violation of American law, murdering the crew is still not an acceptable form of punishment.

About the proliferation of AI generated music

A man walks into a pet store. There's a parrot for $100, it says this parrot speaks perfect English . The one next to it is $1,000, and says, This parrot speaks 12 languages fluently.

Then there's a bedraggled looking, droopy, parrot, and its label simply says One Million Dollars.

Does it sing opera and has successfully run for President? the man asks with a sneer.

This parrot, says the store owner, _thinks_.

That's what this entire post is about - how to evaluate people with a series of attributes, score, correlate, blah blah blah.

Hire them, see if they think. If they don't, fire them. It's cheaper than this credential/signal rigmarole, most of which is about CYA legal b+llsh1t. Yes, it's a simplistic strategy and it doesn't work for Shoogle, Banthropic, Goober, whatever. You know what, boo f*cking hoo. You're a trillion dollar company, suck it up. You have a zombie horde at your doors and you're just upset the "true gems" are hard for you to spot amongst the slavering masses. You're going to heartlessly lay them off anyway in a few years. You SHOULD feel this pain and anguish of having to sort through them, constantly regretting all your choices. That's the only way to have balance in the Universe.

Don Jr. had invested two years ago, it says, and could deny he did so knowing his father would have influence on Pentagon loans at the time. The firm can be touted as "protecting national security" so the loan itself is justifiable.

It's all spun as "smart business thinking," and "everyone else does it," etc. And that's also not entirely untrue. If any Democrat politician were to make noise about it, the Republicans will probably go, Well, what about Hunter (Biden)? The libs will have been owned, mission accomplished.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206