hmmSceptical

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by hmmSceptical 3y ago
Comparing a research role in mathematics vs "boxing a big shipping co" is not the same. Its reasonable to expect a research mathematician to output 0-1 result a year, packing 1 box a year at "big shipping co" is not &quo
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by hmmSceptical 3y ago
> Goalposts You literally said "output" the most speculative / vague definition of "work" available. I appreciate programmers / "creatives" "output" is much harder to measure, but there a
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by hmmSceptical 3y ago
> In the case of programming... A percentage > 90% of the world isn't programmers... There simply isn't the same workflow to monitor "word" / "pdf" documents without an insane amount of effort /
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by hmmSceptical 3y ago
"output" only matters if your company is paid by "results" and isn't based on billable hours, otherwise ... "output" doesn't matter. Law firms would love every case to be solved in 2 hours if they sti
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by hmmSceptical 3y ago
> Bad businesses will continue to use draconian methods to try to squeeze productivity rather than foster it What about jobs that aren't creative like coding or graphic design? Some jobs are simply "sit in your chair and do wor
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by hmmSceptical 3y ago
People get PHD's in designing programming languages / compilers. GPT models are at least 5/10 years out from critiquing the choices those "very smart" people make. Even when they do, we'll need to critique thei
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by hmmSceptical 3y ago
You what? It may be like that on modern captcha mechanisms, but that was not how we got here (I.E "The vast majority of computer vision training images come from self-driving cars’ cameras"). Are you to young to remember when capt