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Also they are addicted to sycophancy. Now that they have a convincing yes man in their pockets they are uniquely vulnerable to AI psychosis.

I find it interesting because it forces lots of people to think at least superficially about how they would define consciousness and its boundaries.

Does it need a substrate? Does the substrate need to be constantly active? Does it need to be organic? Does it need to be able to do high level computation and thinking? Any answer you may give is unfalsifiable so it’s not like it’s a scientific subject anyway. It’s all vibes.

I like that it gives anyone the opportunity to wrestle with some hardcore metaphysics.

Yes but there is no reason to think that they wouldn’t fall roughly in the same distribution.

I think the studio is taking the right lesson, but it doesn’t necessarily apply to the tech industry.

Software is good when it is average (standard, unsurprising), while entertainment is good when it is out of distribution. By definition, you can’t statistically sample good art and get good art at the output.

On the contrary I’ve used it a bit for benign ouchies and it is very conventional and will always always refer you to an actual doctor.

But it might be another sycophancy aspect, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it went off the rail when you prime it with stuff like “give me a natural holistic ancestral remedy for XYZ”

It’s kind of standard practice at this level. They get a million resumes a week in inbound, of which they hire very little, and they have an army of recruiters who go searching for people in the industry, who for the most part already have a job.

It’s way more profitable to let small startups grow juniors into competent employees and pluck them when they’re ripe, than to take risks on junior profiles. (not that i condone it but it’s a sad truth of recruitment)

Exactly. Mega corps don’t touch entry level work, they do exactly as you say and pay a friend of theirs so that this friend can steal wages from poor people and guarantee them floor-level prices.

Honestly it doesn’t matter if you make 300k a year at Meta or $12 an hour at Walmart

It absolutely does. If you can make 300K at Meta you can make 250K someplace else. Missing out on those extra 50K is nowhere near an existential threat to you.

If you make 12$/h at Walmart i am not blaming you for taking what you can and making a living of it. If you work for a Meta subcontractor in Kenya doing 300$ a month i am not blaming you.

But if you choose to work for an objectively evil company while you have other options (which you definitely have if EvilCorp is even considering your resume), and you make that choice just to maximize your discretionary spending… then you can’t play the solidarity card.

Are you under the impression that only Amazon, Microsoft & Walmart are hiring ? Did every software company suddenly vanish while i was napping ? Sorry but there are a million companies hiring the same kind of profiles as Meta, which are not evil monopolistic mega-corporations.

Also what’s Walmart got to do with this ? You think greeters and cashiers are hired from the same pool as Meta product owners ?

I’ve known people with experience and degrees that have been searching for like 6 months

If that is the case then Meta probably won’t touch their resume with a 10-ft pole.

I mean if I worked for a soul sucking corporation (pick one Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) and another shitty corporation (Meta) offered me a substantial pay raise why wouldn’t I take it?

But that’s not the real scenario. Monstruous companies aren’t the only jobs around. There’s a bajillion smaller and more ethical companies that hire the same kind of profiles as Meta.

Also the mega-corporations tend to not poach small fish from each other. Sure they’ll go after each other’s top performers but there’s a tacit agreement that “normal workers” are not fair game.

meta doesn’t only have high level jobs

The majority of their hires are experienced profiles. “Bog standard” worker in Meta is already a pretty high paying job as entry level work is massively outsourced.

all who work there are some kind of imaginary elite?

That’s not at all what i’m saying. I’m saying if you can land a job at Meta then you can absolutely find a job elsewhere. There is nobody in the world who is stuck between an empty belly and accepting a position at Meta. They’re just stuck between making good money somewhere, and making better money at Meta.

That’s bullshit. Almost all meta hires are poached, and they’re not coming for you if you’re not in a position to make good money.

The vast majority of these people chose to leave an already cushy job to get in there.

I love that their moat has been bridged by open models as soon as it was dug. At the current rate, you just have to wait six or nine months and open models will be at opus 4.6 level which is really all you need for most applications. After this I don’t see how the big labs could ever recoup their losses.

That’s not really what’s happening they’ve been trimming a lot of middle manager fat too

This reminds me of Barney Stinson

You don’t hire interns for productivity

Because it’s unethical. I’ve been in business for 10+ years but i never hired an intern because i don’t find it fair to make someone work for less than minimum wage, and i don’t have the structure required to really teach them anything. I have bad fundamentals and only ever learnt by doing, so having an intern while it may help me wouldn’t really help them and that’s not a deal i’m willing to make. Probably why i’m not super successful lol

That being said, i don’t see any problem with making a GPU cry somewhere in California for my menial tasks. And it’s tremendously effective too, for a hundred bucks a month i get a lot of shit done that would take me ages. I don’t give it access to anything critical so it can’t fuck my shit up and i come out on top as long as the tokens are subsidized by dumb VC money.

As if a 90$/month intern wasn’t a good deal lol

In my experience I’ve mostly seen it used for a local equivalent of S3 to plop in your dev environment. It’s pretty good if your prod depends on S3 and you don’t want to deal with the cost and latency of using actual S3 buckets during development.

But why are they being poked with pointy sticks?