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I am not an AI hater, it helps me automate many of the more mundane tasks of my job or the things I don’t ever have time for.

I also feel that change management is a big factor with any paradigm shifting technology, as is with LLMs. I recall when some people said that both the PC and the internet were going to be just a fad.

Nonetheless, all the reasons you’ve mentioned are the same ones that give me concern about AI.

Oh look, 8.4 billion in more made up money.

In other news, I think I just learned why Elon got more weird all of a sudden about 6 years ago. P. Thiel funding his brain chips? New conspiracy theory just dropped.

• Hans Zimmer
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• John Williams

Analysis …

You should eat more fiber. You wipe too hard but somehow also not enough? You sat 23.64 minutes longer than required, you’re at risk for a hemorrhoid. You have a 22.5% chance of acquiring cancer.

There’s protein in the specimen. I caught a glimpse of the images displayed on your phone. Disregard previous assessment, why did you acquire me when you already provide such thorough analysis?

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Well yea, when you train the entire 2nd generation of coders on a book that is “For dummies” what did you expect?

Oh, come on and search me (whoa, whoa) I got my problems (whoa, whoa) You got your eyes wide My bags of McDs… And raccoon with a meth pipe

Being a US citizen permanently living in a foreign country, paying taxes to that country and not paying US taxes.

I’ve been interviewing folks for an internship position lately. These have been remote interviews. Six things that have made candidates stand out to me.

• Get your camera angle straight. Don’t slouch in the corner. I need professionals so I need you to look like one.
• Hide the weird shit in your backgrounds, unless it’s something you want to talk about
• Have presence / wow factor. I’m interviewing for a position that will sometimes talk to customers. I’m your customer at the moment and I really do want to buy what you’re selling, and will absolutely do so if you wow me.
• Read the job description, I put a lot of effort into that thing (I know, not every company does). Get to know the JD and company website. I had a marketing guy apply and he got through the resume review because he had an lot experience in my industry. Turns out he didn’t and I read right through it. Don’t waste my and your time, neither of us have enough of it on this planet as is.
• Have hobbies, extracurriculars. I get tired of asking the same boring questions to everyone so I may ask you about them. I’m in no way religious but surprisingly, I’ve now had two candidates talk to me about how they’re a leader in their church and that they’re leading groups or projects there. It got them both to the next round. I want to hire a colleague not a robot.
• Have writing and presentation samples prepared. I want to see how you document things I want to see the work you’re proud of. I need dynamism and a diverse team, not all of us need to be customer facing rockstars. A beautiful presentation absolutely can and has won me over on candidates that did not have the interview presence.

Some don’ts

• Don’t act aloof. I’m giving you my attention and I need the same from you.
• Don’t be cocky. I want confidence but not cockiness, as cockiness would likely have my clients calling me telling me to get you off their projects.
• Don’t ask me to rate how well you did at the end of the interview. That’s what practice interviews are for.

A quorum of forums.

Get on my bike and see how far it could take me. And when I was done with that I would go build bike trails for my community.

Mr Burns got shot.

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You must be one of those big big city mice.

15 miles by the crow flies is a lot different than 15 miles driving on the ground.

I’m more worried about what happens when one of these contraptions wraps itself around a power line.

• hey, my name is _____, what’s yours?
• are you looking for new friends?
• great I do _____ on ______ days, would you like to join?

You see a baby on the second floor in a burning building. It’s crying. Its screams trigger your fight or flight response. Though you know going into that burning building will harm you, your will to act compels you to go save that baby and end its suffering.

You go in, the flames all around you, but you can barely feel them because you are so concentrated on reaching that baby.

You get to the baby. Your flight response now kicks in. You jump out the window. You break your ankle, but you can’t feel it, because your sense of duty and accomplishment of saving that child and the cheers from the community overwhelm your own internal nervous system.

That’s empathy. When your feelings for others override your feelings for yourself. When the extrinsic reward from the community can override your intrinsic experience.

Granted, an extreme example.

Gregorian chant can be very relaxing in the right moment.

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Agreed, if AI can pass the bar AND the defendant’s right to a public attorney is unavailable due to resource and time constraints, then this is a whole lot better than the plea deals that some defendants are being coerced to sign without a public defender.

And let’s not kid ourselves. Most of the existing public defenders are probably using AI to support their case nowadays anyway.

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We are all ich bin ein wieners now.