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> and the more elite software jobs are among the most demanding jobs on Earth. You need to get out of that bubble. Even being a professional violinist is like
by 4gotunameagain 4y ago
> and the more elite software jobs are among the most demanding jobs on Earth.
You need to get out of that bubble. Even being a professional violinist is like an order of magnitude harder than the most hardcore software job.
And most of them are payed shit.
- benreesman 4y agoI have tremendous respect for serious concert musicians. I was never a professional musician but I was an extremely serious amateur musician for over a decade and my life is full of people who could trivially be professionals if, to your point, it paid better. But I find the contention that elite musicians are “an order of magnitude” more capable as concerns fluid intelligence and capacity for detail than the folks at (to name one example) DeepMind to be just silly. Now the guy composing those pieces after going deaf, yeah, that’s in this whole other world called “genius”. Playing violin well enough to be called a profession is an extremely demanding task both physically and intellectually, that’s been measured every which way, but let’s not get carried away.
- Aeolun 4y ago> Now the guy composing those pieces after going deaf, yeah, that’s in this whole other world called “genius”. Isn’t this essentially mathematics? Not that that’s not still impressive :)
- wiseowise 4y ago> Even being a professional violinist is like an order of magnitude harder than the most hardcore software job. And you got to that conclusion how?