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Did you make her replace all her shoes with your preferred brand (Crocs)? That would be a fair exchange then.

Did you ask for a raise immediately since they thought you were so essential?

I told my dentist how much I liked my water flosser, and he immediately said "that's fine but it's not very effective, you still need to use regular floss too".

Most of the effort goes into eliminating the 5-year cycle and hanging on as long as possible.

Because deceit and lies exist.

So you are saying: backstab your manager and get them fired so you can take their place?

The supposed "security team" is busy fighting Google engineers connecting to internal systems to do their work. E.g. somebody figured how to control the coding AI agent from their phone -- red alert, ban all access from phones to AI for everybody (even with corporate accounts).

They do know, I experienced it myself.

I had a testing phone and my regular phone, I kept swapping the same Verizon SIM between them. It worked for maybe 3 swaps, then Verizon blocked my account and sent me an email: suspicious activity detected, the SIM is blocked and cannot be restored, the contract has been terminated, you will receive the refund in mail.

Good riddance, US Mobile is so much cheaper and pleasant to use. I am scared to swap SIMs with them now though.

> Whether AI is conscious or not is independent of the social acceptance of the idea, unless you believe in thoroughly discredited and quite radical forms of social constructionism.

Yet all science is social, until you convince other people to take your ideas seriously, you are just another crank/loony.

How is social constructionism thoroughly discredited? Wikipedia shows some people poking with nits that don't look serious to me at all.

Why would that happen? In a different coordinate system (Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates) nothing special happens at the event horizon at all.