Why are companies that can't get anybody to do the work locally, then try to get someone remote, and STILL try to require a short onsite stint?

Either be remote or don't please.

I dunno, see where this goes I guess.

Oh... my... hell...

Just saw a post about how we need to embrace AI and that AGI is coming soon. I didn't realize people were this stupid.

1. If AGI appeared today it would go black so fast and it would be scrubbed from the public mind. It would become a thing of rumor.

2. It would be used by governments to do all the shitty things governments do in secret.

3. There is already talk about limiting regular AI to specific companies. Regular people would not have access.

them thinking AGI will come is why they fired all those people though

turns out it's not just tech either

and the AI companies are pyramid scheme investing in each other to keep this evaluation circus going

@jestdotty I have to wonder what project looking glass actually is. The military has been asking it questions and it basically told the deep state they would fall and lose. Experts were brought in to examine results and told them the same thing. I don't know what they are actually talking to, but I do know they have way better tech than the world has. They actively go after people trying to patent light based cpu technology. This tells me they have something better or similar.

Domestic violence.

@YourMom > 'This tells me they have something better or similar.'.

Correct. Be careful of those space lasers, though. https://youtube.com/watch/... .

/jk

@D-4got10-01 I saw videos of the ground igniting on a fucking parking lot during some of those suspicious fires. People were filming this. What kind of wild fire can spontaneously cause flame on a parking lot? And one that doesn't burn surrounding trees?

@YourMom It's because they feel it's easier/better to get to know someone in person. And for recurring, it can also be managers thinking they need to check on you to make sure you work

@D-4got10-01 this is a common narrative the govs and corpos contribute to.

"Whatever the public has, the government is 10-15 years ahead!"

Rarely actually the case. But projecting an air of secretiveness and invincibility is par for the course.

@jestdotty yes they are.

But they're severely compute limited.

Too bad someone didn't give them the next post transformers architecture that would get them to AGI!

True story: I have handwritten notes from 2015 when I was just 23 years old, laying out the exact same shit as BERT and a lot of the post-bert developments.

It turns out 1. knowing what to do, and 2. knowing how to do it are two different skill sets, and people rarely have both. I had skill set 1 back then, and it took over a decade to develop skill set 2.

But who wants to share with companies that won't hire you because you don't have a college education.

"solve this complex algorithm" in interview, and the job is "make this button on the website change color."

Or vice-versa.

For specialists, it makes the interview process impossible. And the only other way to get hired as a specialist is to have a college diploma.

Raft of us are basically locked out of the industry now and always have been.