Usually, when the money runs out, they return with their tails between their legs, often in shittier jobs that they'd have had if they'd stuck with it. You're right about the grass being greener. The tech industry is an…
Our healthcare system is an absolute travesty for the poor, but it's pretty lousy even for people who can afford care. I know plenty of people with 7- and 8-figure net worth, people who have connections to the medical…
On the other hand, for-profit medicine is great for the shareholders.
> I see that phrase thrown around a lot. It's a variant of "you're never going to be a billionaire (so you shouldn't be against X)." Why do people assume that you have to think you'll be a billionaire to be against…
This is absolutely going to be used against unionizers, which is what's really meant by "colluding". In the US this is going to get a lot of people fired. In other parts of the world, it's going to get them killed. This…
> Considering that the US universities consistently rank among the top and they do produce the significant portion of the groundbreaking innovation and technology, maybe the American model has a merit? There's a long…
The issue is that, while writing skill is rare and somewhat objective, writing performance is intensely subjective. The experiment's been done where people take award-winning novels and throw them at the submission…
The headline's a bit of a stretch compared to what is really going on. We're nowhere close to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and we may never get there, because humans with malevolent intentions, bolstered by…
> The article describes what it takes to getting published; ie, passing an ever increasing number of gatekeepers. Agents, "blurb writers", publishers, reviewers are all professional gatekeepers, organized in a giant,…
Ball packing (no, it's not some new thing Bay Area VCs are doing--I mean, it probably is also that but it's not what I'm referring to here; rather, it's the n-dimensional analogue of sphere packing) gets stranger in…
Casinos are regulated. Casinos don't dominate the economy. Casinos haven't wasted the bulk of a generation's top talent to enrich a small number of pederasts in a tiny geographic area. My view of "morals" laws is that…
Most venture-funded startups solve silly non-problems or in fact cause serious harm to society, but make billions of dollars in doing it. Meanwhile, we haven't been to the moon since the '70s, life expectancy in the US…
Ninety-nine percent of private equity profits come from taking strategies that are illegal with regulated, public companies and applying them to unregulated assets. And venture capital is a subset of private equity.…
It's not just B-school; the predictive variable is the social class of the students. In low-income public schools, the problems are systemic and have more to do with society than the quality of teachers (which is not as…
> Employed work is not everything. I could be wrong, but I'm interpreting the OP as expressing frustration not at the school system, but at a labor market that has no demand for creativity (except in the few remaining…
> In my ~20-year career I have never once been in a workplace setting where creativity wasn't valued. Mayhaps, but if true this is atypical and fortunate. Ninety-nine percent of people get shunted into subordinate labor…
> The purpose of school isn't to create employees. I'm not OP, but I think his question is more, "Why does school set people up to be disappointed by the jobs available to them?" Not, "Why does school teach things that…
This has been studied quite a bit by sociologists. Schools in low-income areas tend to reward subordination and punish self-expression. Closed campuses, metal detectors, the start-of-class bells... the messages are…
Then you're included as disabled. You have a neurological makeup that increases the difficulty of securing and succeeding in employment. You have almost certaimly been given fewer opportunities than you would if you…
> The complaint that returning to the office will lead to a "younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied" workforce is maybe the most absurd attempt yet to destroy RTO plans. It isn't.…
That wasn't my intent, and his username appears to be a real name (although I don't know). Apologies if it seemed that was what I was trying to do. I wasn't. I assumed that he was a real-name account who wanted to be…
It sounds like you're alleging that Timnit Gebru (whom I've never met, but who seems like a fine person from what I have read) is "toxic" and that working with her would be "a nightmare" to you. Am I correct in…
This. People get let go all the time and that's just how the game works, but if a company is publicly saying someone was "fired for cause", that means someone who outranks the lawyers is out to rape this guy's name,…
Scientists are pretty used to the idea of having their papers rejected. It happens all the time for all sorts of reasons. Never say never, but the likelihood that someone who's already gone through a PhD program would…
That too. The debts basically ensure that people have no choice but to "move where the jobs are" (which the reptilians tell us is a virtue) and work 65+ hours per week. Everything that took so long to build gets…
Usually, when the money runs out, they return with their tails between their legs, often in shittier jobs that they'd have had if they'd stuck with it. You're right about the grass being greener. The tech industry is an…
Our healthcare system is an absolute travesty for the poor, but it's pretty lousy even for people who can afford care. I know plenty of people with 7- and 8-figure net worth, people who have connections to the medical…
On the other hand, for-profit medicine is great for the shareholders.
> I see that phrase thrown around a lot. It's a variant of "you're never going to be a billionaire (so you shouldn't be against X)." Why do people assume that you have to think you'll be a billionaire to be against…
This is absolutely going to be used against unionizers, which is what's really meant by "colluding". In the US this is going to get a lot of people fired. In other parts of the world, it's going to get them killed. This…
> Considering that the US universities consistently rank among the top and they do produce the significant portion of the groundbreaking innovation and technology, maybe the American model has a merit? There's a long…
The issue is that, while writing skill is rare and somewhat objective, writing performance is intensely subjective. The experiment's been done where people take award-winning novels and throw them at the submission…
The headline's a bit of a stretch compared to what is really going on. We're nowhere close to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and we may never get there, because humans with malevolent intentions, bolstered by…
> The article describes what it takes to getting published; ie, passing an ever increasing number of gatekeepers. Agents, "blurb writers", publishers, reviewers are all professional gatekeepers, organized in a giant,…
Ball packing (no, it's not some new thing Bay Area VCs are doing--I mean, it probably is also that but it's not what I'm referring to here; rather, it's the n-dimensional analogue of sphere packing) gets stranger in…
Casinos are regulated. Casinos don't dominate the economy. Casinos haven't wasted the bulk of a generation's top talent to enrich a small number of pederasts in a tiny geographic area. My view of "morals" laws is that…
Most venture-funded startups solve silly non-problems or in fact cause serious harm to society, but make billions of dollars in doing it. Meanwhile, we haven't been to the moon since the '70s, life expectancy in the US…
Ninety-nine percent of private equity profits come from taking strategies that are illegal with regulated, public companies and applying them to unregulated assets. And venture capital is a subset of private equity.…
It's not just B-school; the predictive variable is the social class of the students. In low-income public schools, the problems are systemic and have more to do with society than the quality of teachers (which is not as…
> Employed work is not everything. I could be wrong, but I'm interpreting the OP as expressing frustration not at the school system, but at a labor market that has no demand for creativity (except in the few remaining…
> In my ~20-year career I have never once been in a workplace setting where creativity wasn't valued. Mayhaps, but if true this is atypical and fortunate. Ninety-nine percent of people get shunted into subordinate labor…
> The purpose of school isn't to create employees. I'm not OP, but I think his question is more, "Why does school set people up to be disappointed by the jobs available to them?" Not, "Why does school teach things that…
This has been studied quite a bit by sociologists. Schools in low-income areas tend to reward subordination and punish self-expression. Closed campuses, metal detectors, the start-of-class bells... the messages are…
Then you're included as disabled. You have a neurological makeup that increases the difficulty of securing and succeeding in employment. You have almost certaimly been given fewer opportunities than you would if you…
> The complaint that returning to the office will lead to a "younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied" workforce is maybe the most absurd attempt yet to destroy RTO plans. It isn't.…
That wasn't my intent, and his username appears to be a real name (although I don't know). Apologies if it seemed that was what I was trying to do. I wasn't. I assumed that he was a real-name account who wanted to be…
It sounds like you're alleging that Timnit Gebru (whom I've never met, but who seems like a fine person from what I have read) is "toxic" and that working with her would be "a nightmare" to you. Am I correct in…
This. People get let go all the time and that's just how the game works, but if a company is publicly saying someone was "fired for cause", that means someone who outranks the lawyers is out to rape this guy's name,…
Scientists are pretty used to the idea of having their papers rejected. It happens all the time for all sorts of reasons. Never say never, but the likelihood that someone who's already gone through a PhD program would…
That too. The debts basically ensure that people have no choice but to "move where the jobs are" (which the reptilians tell us is a virtue) and work 65+ hours per week. Everything that took so long to build gets…