competitive salary
so competitive we refuse to compete by actually stating it

by this point I might just have some fun and not apply to jobs persay but just write funny blurbs to them about their ads

I think I'm finding I just don't wanna work with all these technologies

Get an LLM to write fake resumes and spam them with it, would be my first idea.

Though im totally aware of the current bs hiding behind obfuscation standards... there's a very valid reason for not stating it publicly. It's along the same lines as how i explain the shit reality of minimum wage to those ignorant and at that low wage point in some unskilled labour post.

If they standardise it there's an inherent trap for making it significantly less than someone's actual value and forces an env with more shit workers, and shit practices, to exist in order to meet their necessary recs. Basically it makes it necessary to account for everything from excessive training and laziness to highest plausible turnover rates and severely increased liklihood of , unwarranted, lawsuits for unlawful firing. These are forced to a much higher calculated margin. Also makes it harder to promote/increase pay for those deserving it.

Ive always been in a solid position to negotiate (or demand) my rate, but I've consulted/changed hiring policy in many businesses over the years.

I have generally the same viewpoint as i did in high school when my intended path was a currently non-existent career where i solved a core issue and also would replace and optimise the role of 4+ otherwise necessary hires... make yourself an appealing hire at a tolerable(typically uncomfortable) rate. Then integrate and become nearly indispensable where itd be much more work and cost to fire you than accept your demands, especially if the demands come at a crucial, all hands on deck, time.

Back in hs i was going to design and translate UIs so it made sense to normal, non-dev, humans instead of the unintuitive design with translations being provided like a kindergarten game of telephone. Ofc this was back before UI design was a known career path, "UX" didn't exist, UI was actually EUI and google translate was soooo much worse.

@awesomeest yeah I'm against minimum wages

it's stupid cuz if it wasn't there more businesses are viable but also the populace at large would know how to negotiate pay so there would be pay skills because negotiating pay would be a skill everyone possesses

it's like making it illegal to make pools taller than height. people are gonna be afraid of the ocean now, and swimming in the ocean "becomes weird" 😩

I see posts with a salaried displayed get a shitton of applications so I assume they don't like that because of that. people see the salary and then apply even though not qualified to a much higher degree

@awesomeest lol I'm too cooperative to hold someone hostage
but that didn't work out for me being like this
my disposition is too chill, fuck
and all that happens is I get mounted into disappointment until depression
and ofc nobody cares

should I punish myself until I become a different personality? sounds exhausting

whatever, now I'm making money a different way where my skills actually get results
and I guess I'll just eternally be salty people wanna pretend to be cooperative when they're exploitive
and never feel ok joining them in enterprise again
fuck people

I do check from time to time as I'm curious, but it just makes me wanna throw up

the other wild thing to me is people are so fragile to even get bullied

every time I see that I'm surprised

talk about disappointment in humanity

@jestdotty glad u understand basic economics... unfortunately the vast majority of society doesnt, and they comprise the bulk of the voting pool.

Labour unions tend to cause similar issues. I've explained the inherent problems with these systems to MANY people. Both were created initially waaaaay before the internet, most workplace safety protocols, mass transit, etc.

The original reason for these are non-issues nowadays(at least in the countries thatd actually enforce them)... hazardous work conditions(lactual hazard not from wilful ignorance) and lack of readily available, comprehendable, laws (both immigrants and typical non-lawyers). Of course non-english-speaking immigrants, especially in industries built in with 'company towns', got the worst.

Nowadays they just mentally handicap weak-minded people into a trench of non-evolving survival, doing the bare minimum to not be canned. It's similarly true for those auto price sites and reducing reliance on tipping practices.

@awesomeest idk if I'm right but I have the sense that majority of voting base or whatever can't grasp complexity of an explanation well

maybe something like a neural network that is too chaotic, so they can't get at all the details and it's overwhelming

analogies work best as explanations tho if you genuinely wanna play politics. there was some talk at some famous uni a dude gave for an hour hammering home the point and I don't have the link, but everyone understands transitive properties from systems they are already experienced in, and you can piggyback on that. I've used this before and it works if you can tune it right (tho honestly I'm too lazy to care about people most of the time, and track what they know, etc)

@jestdotty im very chill about things too... comments like yours tend to shine with a glaring light towards what 3 (otherwise disconnected, ignorant of eachother/the commentary) close friends have described my general view of humans as:
"You view the world and everyone in it like a game of the SIMs."

I ofc asked for clarification as it sounds like a negative or insult but came from people who genuinely like me for whatever reason.

One explanation (the 2 others concurred):
'No one plays comparing themselves to pixel people and thinking like "I'm better than you pixel SIMs guy!"... or the reverse and being all defensive. Thatd be insane; they're not real people. They exist on totally different planes of existence... People normally have like 1 or 2 families that they care about, then just tweak everything around them so they do well. They don't care what happens to the rest."

The aided/defended SIMs are apparently my friends; everyone else are just NPC pawns to experiment/play with.

@jestdotty the SIMs thing has been proven more and more accurate over the last decade+.

The analogy thing is accurate. I know so many languages and, especially in english, have a vocabulary so vast that you'd need a doctorate or some insane level of adjacent xp to comprehend a convo with me if I'm not holding back... or some seriously quick skill with a dictionary-- not the pocket versions. Even if typical humans understood all the words I do, i bet itd be the same, unless they are an expert in the field of discussion as well.

Analogies are still, by far, the most likely to get someone to understand. Since I employ people that aren't native english speakers (and their native language isnt in my top 7 in fluency), i rely on them daily... add in the autistic genuis with no valid frame of ref for neurotypicals and it's very vital.

@awesomeest you mean I view people as sims?

people have said that as a negative about me but it's not even true. I have a human core just a brain on top of it, and I disassociate (mute emotions, use intelligence) often to analyze

viewing things as systems is just a fun mini game like doing sudokus
it can also be useful though

but i'm still human insiiiide

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to know they're sims you had to have compared them and concluded what they're not, I can go back and fourth on this perspective

idk if people have families, they seem to just have habits from childhood or later instincts can activate in the case of children for both sexes... most dudes i've met don't seem to have instincts for females modernly

dude I'm seeing says people are like NPCs to him but I don't even think of them so I don't know what they are. I think I'm optimistic people are better than they are, so I have some idealized vision with every person and then they downgrade and I note those things as I uncover them

@jestdotty i wasn't directly suggesting that it was applicable to you... but now i am lol.

Your response, imo, clearly puts you in an, at least, adjacent catagory to me, and is a major flag to my preexisting theory you're autistic.

If you reread the explanation (written verbatim) i was given, youll see they never refd the initial phrasing (see/view). They suggest (& confirmed since) that I'm not actually considering the rest of the SIMs world at all, aside from momentarily when they could be of use as a tool.

Specifically, i (and clearly you) dont consider them as better or worse, nor care enough to pay attention unless necessary. It's not about having a heart or not; no malintent or anything else. It's like if you went out to do any mundane task, whether grocery shopping or a physical, big-ish, conference. Unless they reeeeally stick out, smell bad, are dressed weird, cause trouble/annoyance, etc. u dont even think about them.

@jestdotty
But if someone shows u a current picture or otherwise directly links to something youd have witnessed, youre likely to remember them.

Actual NPCs (like the ones with dialogue, names and/or part of quests) youre way more likely to pay attention to. They are intentionally in focus and an entity you need to acknowledge and/or converse with to do *whatever* in the game. The SIMs ref is like everyone else is essentially 'Villager #2' or lower(even uncredited). They exist, you saw that there was other characters in the background and have a general idea they exist plus some generic traits (like 'an older guy with a pitchfork/looked angry')... but u dont consider them unless prompted.

@awesomeest ye I don't think about them

I mentioned the NPC thing cuz I figured chilling, the convo doesn't have a direction as far as I'm aware and you mentioned them

you'd need a definition for autism to be able to apply it, which I think we had that convo before but I don't remember it anymore cuz I think it went nowhere

I don't think all that much about people if they smell bad or stick out or cause trouble. I only pay attention to what's relevant to me
fuming that someone was annoying doesn't sound like a pleasant state of existence so I never assimilated it
the people who do that probably grew up in households where they had no power over their outcomes so had to vent their emotions, so some psych guy said
so maybe the similarity is that and not "autism"

if someone annoys me I'd just locate where they came from and adjust avoiding such situations in the future, if that's even relevant because it can be a fluke
it's just a lack of learned helplessness

@awesomeest naw I meet people in the street who recognize me and have inside jokes with me and I don't remember them... very weird experience

even people I knew fade from memory. sometimes old friends will mention shenanigans I did with other people and I get all amused and ask the details because I don't remember and they don't remember either... reeee

I have serious apathy though (generally) which is what makes me forget people

hmmm on errands I'm aware they're people. I view the world more primal and animalistic I think
I know they fulfill a function and I have to talk to them because they fulfill a function but I don't view them as NPCs

idk them
I view people who have repeat regurgitated dialogue as NPCs / sims whatever

I don't view friends as sims. I view them as people, but I always feel I don't know much about them. and if I get close then I get really bored. so I don't like that

@jestdotty everything you're saying is just validating my point.

The SIMs thing that you keep skating past isnt that you (or i) cognise people like npcs or SIMs, it's literally that we dont cognise them as anything.

The people that approach you because they remember an encounter with you when you dont, same thing. You mention it as if it negates my point, but it just proves it. I didn't say that youd remember people that remembered you, as if your interaction had a much higher value to them than you... i specifically mentioned it as a nearly reversed situation.

Aside from some extremely odd (and rare) instances of asymptomatic migraines causing transient amnesia, my memory is extensive and accurate to an extreme level. But, it's not rare that someone contacts me, expecting i remember them, can describe an encounter with me (even at my house) enough that it's clearly true. Without something remarkable(weird name, something i find ridiculous, etc) as a trigger idr them.

@awesomeest hmmm seems like the definitions changed

I can cognize people fine...

unless the definition of that is gonna be something weird again (which isn't stated)

I just have a caring problem

do other people even cognize each other? how about start there. or would that require you to cognize?

but wouldn't you have to cognize me to tell me how I am and how I see people?

@jestdotty neurotypicals cognise other people somewhat on autopilot. The thing you're still missing whilst confirming is, imo, the core of autism. Its not can/cant cognise others; it's simply that it doesnt happen automatically/by default.

Personally, i think autism is a positive, evolutionary trait, just still has a bit more debugging required.

Like with most words in most languages, i tend to go off the literal, etymologically defined, definition. Autism comes from greek "autos".

Technically the term was initially used for a specific part of psych disorders like schizophrenia. But, the root origin is still valid. 'Autos', in old greek, is literally 'self', if self was a verb. There's not a simple direct translation for autos, in english or any language i know. It's like a self-contained machine (or organism) that innately functions on its own.

@awesomeest system 1 is autopilot system 2 is having intelligence

I think that has more to do with brain inflammation, some dude was going around that causes depression and Alzheimer's

when I got sick I couldn't use system 2 and that freaked me out

when I was reading that systems book I was like ??? cuz I'm not in system 1 but I'm n system 2... but the guy claimed people are "lazy" and in system 1 most of the time

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I used to cognize people I just don't anymore because people suck
specifically when I was a teenager I was very good at it
actually technically I'm still good at it, judging from people liking my takes on people we both met
I had good cognitive empathy at one point but now I have brain damage. probably it will come back later tho

ye I'm autotelic but not autistic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

they're not the same thing
Russians think autism is a messed up glutamate conversion somewhere and they give them benzos. they all look anxious to me so matches to me

@jestdotty no... both are autopilot. That's the whole point. It's about the innate format of default thought (incl. cognition) patterns.

Either system can choose to cognise/think about/consider additional variables and base action on these factors. It's just the difference in the instinct-adjacent initial inclination.

It's like if, with no witnesses, potential recording, etc., someone finds a case full of millions of dollars. Many people only think 'yay money! *all the things they can do/solve/etc with that money. Many immediately jump to firmly believing It's a trap and/or unnecessarily very dangerous, and that's all to convince them to stay away/ignore it. Then there's some that are aware of both the happy/helpful side and plausible dangers.

Any type can habitually choose to ignore logic or embrace and delve into it, before finalising their stance and/or intended next action.

@jestdotty
https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/document/...

Any citing of Russia's opinion of, well... almost anything, but certainly something like this where their infrastructure for irl research is extremely inept, is simply ridiculous.

Since i 'met' you, you've shown an inherent negative viewpoint of "autism" with an explicit lack of knowledge and comprehension of what defines autism. Nearly all of your commentary aimed at dispelling any idea that you're autistic, has done the opposite. This time, you mention being autotelic as if it makes autism less likely... there's a high correlation.

Frankly, aside from the general, factually flawed and very outdated, viewpoint of it being innately a handicap disorder, primarily of dysfunction (which i view as quite beneath you-- due to actual intelligence), i dont get why you seem to think it's leprosy.

@awesomeest ok idk what your point is tho

that explanation raises more questions and says nothing about the previous confusions

@awesomeest I also mentioned autotelic last time you mentioned autism

also, slaaanderrrr
if I have a bad opinion on a politically favoured class of people that would be slander of my character to the public. feeling defensive? we been in that kind of convo as well before and it was kind of anti-climactic cuz denial of one's own existwnce is boring

I come from a family of Russian phds though and having a negative opinion of Russian science I guess is a politically favoured opinion because Russians bad so what am I to do! guess I lose. womp womp. you are politically correct. I run tail