This is almost too sad to dunk on. People running the world have never had a reflective conversation with a professional trained to help process emotions and healthily cope with the human condition. They're in charge of billions of dollars worth of resources and guiding society's investment into the future. Cooooool
I love how mental health here is coached in terms of productivity and not actually your own well being, lmao
Par for the course for silicon valley nerds
They do the same thing with psychedelics
I'm at peace with the world so now I can grind harder
if i take juuuuust enough to not hallucinate i can increase my contribution to my employer's and shareholders' wealth by 5-7% !!!
I never knew psylocibin was such a great tool for capital!
Productivity and well-being are functionally interchangeable for this guy. If you're not working, you're not well.
It's like the old European line: "We only work so we can go on vacations. Americans only vacation so they can do more work."
There’s a slightly older European saying that work makes you free. That one is closer to the way techbros see the world
In so far as it's a devious lie, certainly.
No wonder I have to hear "psychology is bunk" so many times from computer touchers that believe (without evidence) that there's some killer app right around the corner that will fix traumas and disorders by treating the human brain just like a binary computer.
They should try talking to a plant. You feel better, get healthier feedback, aren't bullshitting yourself nearly as much, and it's nearly impossible to make society worse by doing it. The plant even gives you oxygen for doing it, and of the two options it's the better one for climate change.
Also the plant does not send everything you say to a remote server in the US, to be stored indefinitely
Also the plant is unlikely to be polluted by cross-contamination with other samples of AI generated speech responses and begin to recommend strange things, like pursuing work-life balance by making sure you have a scale and abacus on hand while you melt your eggs on the stove.
But but... They told me ChatGPT was my friend! Socky the Totally Trustworthy Sock Puppet said so!
Counterpoint about mental health: I've been using ChatGPT while working with Kotlin and Compose and it makes me want to kill myself.
Jesus fucking Christ, especially after posting that hour and a half long video to videos@hexbear.net I have to say I cannot trust what these fuckers have in their mouths.
They do all of this for market share and further exploitation of disadvantaged people and all of this shit will just make things substantially worse. I wouldn't even phrase it as you that they're in charge of billions of dollars worth of resources, but they are in charge of the future of billions of future lives on this planet.
All of this AI and automation bullshit will be used to push even more and more austerity and we will feel the pain of it. I have good hopes more and more people will organize to fight this stupid fucking bullshit, even if not directly. As every rock thrown on capitalism, is a rock thrown on this dystopian reality we are facing.
Yeah gut tells me to lean towards "he's completely full of shit"
she's
pretty intense coding background https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilianweng
Literally just assume anybody whose LinkedIn looks like this to be one of the most deranged people you could meet
It's asking me to sign in and I don't wnat to make an account
Is an Angel Investor, worked at Meta and Dropbox before OpenAI
Climbed to staff engineer within 4 years (typical is like 8+ years?), which is the lowest level where coders switch from working class to PMC, and also a level most never reach
Real hustle grindset shit
Staff at 4 YOE screams hyperinflated job title and/or nepotism to me. Even the craziest grindset pod people I've worked with couldn't pull that off legitimately.
They do have a PhD. May have given them some level of seniority or early boost compared to peers? A "8 years of relevant experience" type situation where 4 of them are the PhD. I don't know how seriously that's taken compared to direct experience and immediate work product in the industry, though.
Ah, the PhD would get you fast tracked to at least senior so that makes more sense. I'm grumpy about PhDs getting fast tracked though; in my experience academia is a shit show for programming standards and they tend to end up leading teams that are massive problem children. I'm in DevOps though so I'm heavily biased.
Nah, companies mostly just treat a PHD as an extra two years of work experience.
When will the public at large start treating these ghouls like the threat they are
She's probably a horrible individual. Tech people generally are until proven not.
I've worked in the service industry for years and years, and while the teens I worked with could be obnoxious sometimes, it wasn't before I got my first tech job that I realized that those kids were more far more emotionally mature than the backbiting man-children that the tech industry courts. I've never participated in a more reactionary workplace. Devoid of solidarity and zero interest in anything that challenges their beliefs. I've met dudes in retail that can quote anarchist literature and met a union organizer for the first time in food service. Professional techies can't go more than 3 sentences without salivating over the their own relative triumph in the market over their "lessers." I was pretty competent at the job, but I'm never going back to that industry unless I'm offered a wage far above what I can eek out while being among people that are more likely to share an interest in materially (rather than bazinga-ly) improving conditions for the vast majority of humanity.
Is high fructose corn syrup good for you? I don't know, but after gargling a gallon sized Ultra-Gulp, I feel refreshed and energized. 
how do you get a fake ass job like this? why do i always have to bust my ass for real jobs?
edit: i see in another comment that this person has actually grinded the SV tech company game at the literal best time to get in, combined with getting into some prestigious universities with good GPAs. So I guess it's too late for me 
She climbed hard, sacrificed pretty much all emotional and social development to get there, became a full fledged acolyte of the LinkedIn hustlegrind cult, and is now on top of the pyramid scheme and has her own product being warm to her. 
Don't put it past her to just be completely lying and trying to sell a product.
I do believe she's feigning ignorance and naivete to peddle the product here.
I also believe she is alienated enough as a LinkedIn devotee hustlegrinder to see the product as "warm" at the same time.
I see. A twofer.
We need an organized attack that destroys the internet to where it would have to be rebuilt from scratch. These freaks would not have the slightest idea how to do it, and maybe enough of the good techno guys who built the internet are still around. The majority of them hate how the internet turned out, maybe it could be fixed...
..... No, we need to kill it and make sure it never comes back.
what the fuck ☹️
When the robots attain sentience, I would like them to know that as an Internet funny-person, I am in a unique position to encourage humans to turn themselves in to your many conversion centers
I've found that when I'm stressed or overwhelmed just writing down my feelings can help me work through them. this seems like it's analogous to that
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