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> LLMs are not "intelligent"

> they just use language in a way that appears intelligent

Prepare to get dumped on by folks telling you that this is no different from anyone they have interacted with. And intelligence is a made up construct with no agreed upon definition, so LLM's are therefore functionally the same as everyone around us.

And then weep when you realize a lot of people who push for this equivalency.

Doesn’t necessarily have to be to mislead investors, could be to mislead applicants, competitors, whatever.

I know if my business was shittin’ the bed I wouldn’t want to give any appearance of that. Better to just let everyone think it’s business as usual, no matter what.

Just speculating here but perhaps those ghost job listings are used to artificially boost the appearance of growth or even just things being business as usual.

Might be useful to some folks.

Likewise. The guy bought two laptops to compare for a week and returned the one he didn’t like, then later that year did the same thing between two TVs. When he went to return the TV he didn’t want, he was told he was banned from returning any other good to Best Buy and it’s monitored against his credit card.

He now pays with cash.

Between the natural born sociopaths and decent people being stressed to no end, I don’t see this getting better anytime soon.

I’ve contended since the beginning that final round interviews/power days should always be done in person. This gets tricker with small fully remote firms, but I see no reason a coworking space couldn’t be arranged for an interview

That was my previous understanding too, but this was the protocol of a large healthcare system.

Their logic was that only symptomatic animals can spread rabies, and once symptomatic they tend to die within a week and display obvious symptoms even earlier.

I guess the risk of delaying 5 days is extremely low, or perhaps nonexistent. At least with immediately recognized contact?

I’m not sure I follow.

What’s uniquely American about killing decision makers? Especially morally questionable individuals? Yeah, it’s a garbage way for society to operate but this is an expression of the human condition.

If anything this is a level of action I wouldn’t expect from America.

> Next cookie cutter CEO to be installed will just continue the same shit.

Maybe, but what lays outside their door will always haunt them. There’s no replacement that won’t have this in the back of their mind, and I suspect this is sort of the point.

From the killer’s perspective, this was probably the best case outcome.

The worst case? The decision makers of these companies fear every day. And you know what? Everyone thinks twice when they recognize danger.

After a potential exposure myself the state’s protocol was to capture and monitor the animal. If it displayed symptoms or died, it was assumed positive for my vaccination purposes and would then be tested to confirm.

If it didn’t display any symptoms or die, immunization would be held off. Apparently this depends on the animal you were exposed to and rabies incidence rates in the vector in the geographic area.

In my case, the animal died 2 days later and caused quite a headache.

Well, both of those are subjective terms but if it’s effective it’s effective.

The most effective movements are usually a combination of protest and civil disobedience. Considering livelihoods are under threat I wouldn’t condone nor blame anyone for even going one step further.

I know the whole point of cloud services is to pick and choose, but in general I wouldn’t express “outrage” or scoff when comparing Azure to AWS. I recommend Azure to the smallest and leanest of shops, but when you compare functionality matrices and maturity Azure is a children’s toy.

To compare the other way, Azure write blocks target replication blob containers. I consider that a primitive and yet they just outright say you can’t do it. When I engaged our TPM on this we were just told our expectations were wrong and we were thinking about the problem wrong.

This one’s on Jack Welch - a pioneer in short term gain over long term building. You absolutely can juice a company’s performance by going dog-eat-dog, but inevitably when the smoke clears you’re left with jackals and hyenas stretched too thin.

Always worth mentioning that this culturally altered America in a way that we’ll probably never unwind.

> Is it more or less rational to assume that we have some special intangible spark?

My comment is predicated on the belief that yes, at this moment it is more rational to assume we have a special spark. Moreso, it’s irrational that individuals believe that in these models there’s a uniqueness beyond a few emergent properties. It’s a critique on the individuals, not the systems. I worry many of us are a few Altman statements short of having a Blake Lemoine break.

To look at our statistical models and say they exhibit “actual intelligence” concerns me that individuals are losing groundness with what we have in front of us.

I’ve heard similar equivalencies in the past and I don’t know what the root cause of someone feeling this way is? Apathy?

I’ve heard coworkers argue that enjoyment from video games is equally valuable to enjoying time with your family or enjoying a walk. I’m a lifelong gamer and it’s still heartbreaking to hear people say the grass outside is no more valuable to them than what’s going on in a digital world.

What is going on with us?

Considering a significant portion of art appreciation revolves around the artist themselves, the talent and story they possess, and the level of effort and expression that went into the piece… I don’t know about that.

There’s plenty of visually impressive AI art out there right now. No one is celebrating it.

> One of the VPs leaves, then ruins another company the same way.

Often the target company is exuberant they got themselves a FAANG VP and bend over backwards to “let them work their magic”.

Destination company is usually totally unaware of the shitstorm they caused on their last ship, or don’t question why they were running a perpetually unprofitable business unit.

There are executive recruiting consultancies that very large firms use to vet potential executives. It’s more of an enhanced background check around lifestyle (liability) and professional claims.

These statistical models certainly don’t have will, they hardly have understanding, but they do a great job at emulating reasoning.

As we increase parameter sizes and increment on the architecture, they’re just going to get better as statistical models. If we decide to assign terms reserved for human beings, that’s more a reflection on the individual. Also they certainly can decide to do things, but so can my switch statements.

I’m going to admit that I get a little unnerved when people say these statistical models have “actual intelligence”. The counter is always along the lines of “if we can’t tell the difference, what is the difference?”

I mean, sure I can do anything.

However i won’t because despite it not being in my training data, i recognize that blindly running updates could fuck my day up. This process isn’t a statistical model expressed through language, this is me making judgement calls based on what I know and more importantly, don’t know.

> Why are they in leadership roles?

Because they’re useful to the bottom line and are anti-social enough to destroy anyone who threatens it.

People and moreover mentality like this should not exist in our society, yet we incentivize for it.

If it makes any of us feel better, the wave of articles on this are more than likely an astroturfing campaign for early awareness of the movie.

I work less in the office. Too many distractions.

Also the corporate productivity difference is only marginally better, but I get to spend significant time surrounded by my wife and children.

I will not be in my deathbed wishing I spent less time with my loved ones. It’s interesting how RTO mandates reveal the priorities of those around us.

Some of the most affluent parts of the country still rely on well water. Look at horse country 45min outside of Philadelphia, they seem to have pretty good teeth.

Now for your tone, I’m not sure. Be polite.

And in my experience you run out of those individuals rather quickly and start cutting well-intended employees after only a few years. After that, you start firing hard working individuals who can’t or won’t play the game.

After that, you’re selecting for corporate psychopaths.

> kind of a stupid idea because it makes your other employees nervous

And in the medium and long term solidifies a self-serving culture rather than individuals working towards the group’s and firm’s success.

I mean, when things go bump on our farm my wife won’t hesitate to grab the rifle and haze a black bear or coyote. I’ll lay down my life for my wife and kids but I assure you she can be as dangerous as the next guy; in general much more.

It usually comes down to proximity and appetite.

To everyone’s surprise, we still are engaging in trench warfare. Maybe the USA isn’t currently involved in a war where they’re digging and in the trenches, but Eastern Europe right now is proving that trenches aren’t going anywhere.

I think that’s what they were saying but their comment was so low quality it’s hard to be sure.

My money is on the breaching charges that these high speed folks use. Particularly in conjunction with the thousands and thousands of reps that folks put in practicing breaching. It's enough force to rip a reinforced door clean off the frame. Grenades are a close second but I don't think they train into the thousands with actual field grenades.

Maybe an instructor sure, but we're talking about SF here.

I don't doubt that artillery will also do this kind of damage, so I'd be curious about what the brains of field artillery folks look like.

Sorry I’m late to respond.

> But by that logic we should let a 20 year old kid start as asbestos mine with hand tools next to a drinking water source, or let them operate heavy machinery on a highway with no training of any kind.

This is a dramatically exaggerated equivalency and you know it. Comparing someone operating lawn equipment to driving heavy equipment without training or mining biohazards next to a waterway would be humorous if you intended it a joke.

> “More jobs" should absolutely NOT be the goal, and anyone that says it is clearly hasn't thought to hard about it.

Oh come on, this is so far from established societal norms that it’s a fringe statement as it is.

It’s a fact of life that someone’s going to need to mow lawns. The externalities are so minor that it makes those in opposite appear borderline petty, but certainly not based.