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Wouldn´t it be much more interesting to spend that precious brainpower into something that actually solves real problems like war, disease, crime, militarism, x

Wouldn´t it be much more interesting to spend that precious brainpower into something that actually solves real problems like war, disease, crime, militarism, xenophopia, lack of education, etc. instead of building another greed-engine that will trigger even more poverty, exploitation and repression? Of course everybody is free to act on his own karma (in a few countries) - but you will have a much better life by doing some more useful work that will benefit all human beeings, not only a few criminals that build weapons of mass murder just for the mentally poor reason of making more and more money. Programmers haz powers to push human evolution, don´t waste your life on golden lies, that will turn into deadly dust in the end!

maeon3 14y ago
A "Quantitative Analyst Salary" starts at 100k/year. Trying to build a trading system is like trying to invent the next 10x battery technology could end up golden dust in the end as well. You're distracting people from proper cost benefit analysis and assessment of risk/reward. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/quantitative-analyst-salary-SRCH_KO0,20.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/quantitative-analyst-salar... Programming getting into high frequency trading is "high risk, higher reward". It would be better to use our Neural Networks to find risk factors for prostate cancer you'll get in 25 years, but the money just isn't there. AKA high risk, low (possibly no) reward.
PoliticsJunkie 14y ago
communist
davidmr 14y ago
This kind of sanctimony is tiring. Every time one of these threads comes up here, it inevitably devolves to a point where someone brings up something like the above. There are those of us who actually enjoy these kinds of problems in and of themselves. I don't consider what I do particularly noble, but I'm paid to solve very interesting and unusual problems in a very fast-paced environment, and I don't feel the need to apologize for it. I'm under no illusions that I'm doing God's Work, but if the bar for useful work is something that will end "war, disease, crime, militarism, xenophopia, lack of education", I think >99% of us fall quite short of it. Maybe I fall shorter than you do (you don't mention what it is that you do), but I still enjoy my job.

maeon3 14y ago

A "Quantitative Analyst Salary" starts at 100k/year. Trying to build a trading system is like trying to invent the next 10x battery technology could end up golden dust in the end as well. You're distracting people from proper cost benefit analysis and assessment of risk/reward. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/quantitative-analyst-salary-SRCH_KO0,20.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/quantitative-analyst-salar... Programming getting into high frequency trading is "high risk, higher reward". It would be better to use our Neural Networks to find risk factors for prostate cancer you'll get in 25 years, but the money just isn't there. AKA high risk, low (possibly no) reward.

PoliticsJunkie 14y ago

communist

davidmr 14y ago

This kind of sanctimony is tiring. Every time one of these threads comes up here, it inevitably devolves to a point where someone brings up something like the above. There are those of us who actually enjoy these kinds of problems in and of themselves. I don't consider what I do particularly noble, but I'm paid to solve very interesting and unusual problems in a very fast-paced environment, and I don't feel the need to apologize for it. I'm under no illusions that I'm doing God's Work, but if the bar for useful work is something that will end "war, disease, crime, militarism, xenophopia, lack of education", I think >99% of us fall quite short of it. Maybe I fall shorter than you do (you don't mention what it is that you do), but I still enjoy my job.