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Power attracts the corruptible

Tolerating the intolerant will erode the very basis that enables you to be tolerant.

It’s the same thing with freedoms

Not just email - their identity / SSO system is just as fucked

I knew grok was garbage from the start and that I couldn’t trust google. Anthropic I’m still not sure but we’ll hear about the dirt when they ipo

It’s just much harder getting paid for that…

whelp I guess that makes sense.

I love working in tech because it’s so cushy and chill but it’s the most stupid (and delusional) industry i ever worked in.

In the gastro industry it’s extremely common (at least in my country) to be employed illegally (as in cash in hand directly).

Most restaurants you go to to eat would have to close if they needed to employ their workers legally. Same thing applies to bars and similar venues.

Source: worked in that industry 10+ years

> measuring quality of life is much harder

I always found the question “what is a good life?” to be one of the most interesting and consequential philosophical questions. People have found very different answers for this over the millennia.

Nah I think that almost everything is luck based.

It’s more that the “i work hard and hustle everyday” narrative from successful people is to protect their little egos from the realisation that 90% of their success is pure luck / chance / chaos.

Turns out many people are in just that position.

Probably the majority in current late stage capitalism

>staff engineer

>under average eu minimum wage

Wth ? How does this work

Maybe I misunderstood but are you saying that companies have these lengthy interview procedures to filter out smart/capable/non-desperate candidates?

Sounds a bit counterproductive

I use it every day

“tooling problem” makes it sound trivial, its a tooling problem like building a quantum computer is a tooling problem. Ie something that probably won’t be solved in our lifetime

I assume that everyone does this no matter what they say. Seems like too juicy a target

Interesting! I thought it was universal - well at least for me Portuguese from Portugal is very hard to understand (especially the pronunciation). I learned Brazilian Portuguese ok, so I’m not really good at it, just basic conversation. If I was a native speaker or really fluent it would maybe be easier to understand Portuguese from Portugal as well.

Arguably the difference between Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese from Portugal is much bigger than between American and British English

Software quality was never as big of an issue as it’s made out to be.

Even before AI most software that ran “mission-critical” systems was kind of bad. I mean huge enterprises got routinely hacked bc of some owasp top 10 shit. And this happened many many times across all industries.

It’s not like before AI everyone was writing well-tested and reviewed secure super brain code

Not my experience tbh.

Those that love writing code are still doing it just way more intense than ever (like the person in the article)

Those that use code as a means to an end, solve that issue and then take the rest of the day off

Might just be me though

A “proper” mirror alongside archive.org would be good too

The adverb “quietly” has become such an AI smell to me, even if it’s probably not one in this instance.

I hope I will never be in that situation to make that decision; but seeing the fate of the different whistleblowers (in the USA) it seems you need to be almost suicidal to blow the whistle.

Like your life will basically be ruined for a long time, maybe forever.

I get the sentiment but basically you say that people need to join corrupt fucked up organisations to make them better. Like if you don’t join and improve things, some kind of psychopath will join in your stead and make things worse.

I don’t think that’s a helpful way to think about it.

You’re not required to improve things anywhere and you can leave a toxic (work)relationship if that’s what you need.

The problem is not that power corrupts; it’s more that power attracts corruptible people

Yea Meta is the only possible company you can work at…

>the institutional left is basically neoliberals

I think that’s very USA centric - i feel it’s different in Europe or South America

The perfidy of Putin (and many other authoritarian regimes) is that they can clothe their anti-democratic and anti-human policies in the language of their opponents.

So Putin can justify anything with words - what they say doesnt really matter or reflect reality. The actions and outcomes matter.

It seems similarly unfathomable to other commenters that US big tech is ideologically aligned with the rightwing parties in EU and SA. Further that the current US administration is openly rooting for leaders to get elected that serve its interests and not the electorate’s interests (which makes sense) and that US big tech is entirely controlled and thrall to the US administration. Truly mindboggling

Well let’s make the next fine 250B, they clearly don’t care enough yet

Maybe a lot of people worked at stackoverflow idk; but I have been organising electronic “underground” music nights for 15+ years and basically stopped now because there just wasn’t a big enough audience anymore.

Anyway what I’m trying to say is that I think COVID and its aftermath is a much bigger factor here than AI, especially when it comes to “live / performing” art

Forgive my ignorance but which machines depend almost entirely on quantum principles?