But as I understand it and I am not an accountant (IANAA?), for non-ZBB budgets last years budget is usually used as a starting point and increases are justified.
"Here's why I need more money to do the same things as last year, plus more money if you want me to do anything extra".
I'd be curious what our man Le Cost Cutter Elon Musk does for budgeting?
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Hi, I'm Kwang. I am a software engineer with experience building fullstack applications. I am interested in creating readable and maintainable solutions. My most recent project is Telegraph, an open-source, serverless framework for integrating real-time notifications into existing applications. Check out the case study (https://github.io) to learn more about it!
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I'm curious why it took hundreds of candidates to not be hired before it dawned on you that it was not sincere? Wouldn't the first dozen have been enough?
Unless your financial interests intersected with those of the companies you consulted for this "show"...?
But, I applaud your bravery in calling these guys out after they stopped giving you work.
USENET, as I recall, was really dominated by the very small minority of the populate of mostly college students/faculty who had access to the then tiny internet.
It wasn't until AOL that the internet was turned into shite.. by letting the unwashed masses online.
As for AI images being horrible, I disagree 100%. If I, as an independent artist, had made some water colors, chalk, or line drawings of the Hollywood sign burning, would that be so horrible? What if I did a photo-realistic oil painting, like John Baeder's, "that couldn't easily be distinguised from the real thing" - and they were widely circulated as "photographs" and confused with same - would that be so horrible?
Is there a real need to see real images of the Hollywood sign aflame versus an AI generated one? As long as it happened, the two images tell roughly the same information. And even if it's untrue, it's not like a burnt or unburnt sign matters that much either way.
And there's an idea that all mediums produce a certain bias, I think McLuhan's Medium is the Message had some ideas along those lines. The act of taking a particular photograph is, itself, a subjective and biased action. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's an idea.
Yes, very clever. Have them deliver the diploma while you deliver the software... ever...so...slowly... and then, charge for consulting fees to make it work after you graduate!!!!
Well, a possible consequence of this is a) my AI spews out resumes and cover letters to the HR AI; b) the HR AI then summarizes and scores my resume and cover letters (possibly, ironically, attempting to determine if it was AI generated); c) the AI agent invites me to submit some work on an AI generated test; d) I get my AI to produce an AI generated answer to their AI generated test....
and so on. That is The Horror.
Necessity, because AI generated or not, we're likely going to hit HR departments that are AI augmented or perhaps nearly all AI with some outsourced humans to review anomalies. So this becomes necessary if we want to compete with all the other job seekers.
Hopefully this means my company of 16 developers, all of whom are white and male, stops getting accused of being racist because ignorant people on the internet don't realise we are English and there are no black developers within 80 miles
Reactionary is a pejorative usually used by Marxists, and implies drawing one side into their false us-vs-them dichotomy where the "them" has a "fair game doctrine" applied to them. Usually other epithets soon follow: racist, criminal, etc.
Not only is it not, as you note, an argument, it's a pejorative label designed to discount and demonize the opponent. It's also likely to be used by someone in a political cult (or "high demand new political movement" if you prefer).
George Orwell had a really fun article on "Politics and the English Language" which goes into some detail on the controlling nature of such language and the people who use it.
I would love to be able to cure the problem of people being mean on the internet.
I think it's a million dollar idea, if it's possible.
I think it can be done, but it seems that incivility is seen as more profitable, or something?
Twitter Japan, for example, is known for being fairly civil. I think even Elon Musk, at one point, said that Twitter Japan was a model for all of Twitter. Go Elon!
Then Elon took over and actively, it seems to me, promoted incivility. I think he figured that making Twitter, now X, more controversial would promote engagement. But Twitter Japan showed that people could engage civilly and didn't need controversy to promote engagement.
I suspect had Elon chose to make Twitter/X more like Twitter Japan, he wouldn't have lost his advertisers (which apparently were a major percentage of revenue).
But the past is history, and Twitter/X is what it is, and is likely to stay that way I think.
I've been working on a project to solve the social connection problem using a new approach. In a post third space society, I want to make it easier for people to connect with others nearby in small groups around shared hobbies and activities. Having a small group size makes it easier to host at someone's place and it's also cheaper than going out.
I did a soft launch earlier this week by posting on NYC subreddits to get early feedback and test out my hypothesis . The reaction has been very positive with many comments saying they like the concept. Obviously there's a long way to go to really nail down the product market fit and build a sustainable business around it but the early feedback makes me feel like there is really something there.
"It also is a bit shallow and does not make strong arguments in the face of conflicting evidence. So not as good as the best humans, but better than a lot of reports that I see." - from the article.
I felt that the article itself suffered from this. It wasn't shallow in it's grasp of AI claims, but shallow and made no strong arguments.
If I want a survey of AI claims without a strong analysis, I can ask AI for that.
I would like to suggest, as a hypothetical, that well funded companies (you know who) are promoting this AI "danger" as a way to cajole federal legislation to come out they can "help with".
It is the fear of every U.S. company to have to deal with 50 different state's legislation (see guns, porn, abortion, alcohol, gambling, prostitution, etc. that all vary state by state) because it's more expensive to have to bend to every little state's ideas of how to protect their citizens.
They want a single point at which they can lobby (and lobby hard with lots of money) to get the lax, self-dealing laws with lots of legal protection they so desperately know will provide them with super-profits.
Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe Skynet is just around the corner.
But as I understand it and I am not an accountant (IANAA?), for non-ZBB budgets last years budget is usually used as a starting point and increases are justified.
"Here's why I need more money to do the same things as last year, plus more money if you want me to do anything extra".
I'd be curious what our man Le Cost Cutter Elon Musk does for budgeting?