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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?