Rich Mean Boys.

I think the answer to your question is Graphene?

I think the difference is that you couldn’t ride a calculator to get a bachelor’s degree in a “stem” field, and I think you can now.

There are more useless cs grads than ever.

Yes I learned how to be a professional on the job. But I had taken on hard problems that I didn’t know how to solve at first and figured them out myself, just as part of being a lonely nerd.

If you ask gpt to figure everything out for you (which I believe is currently possible in a typical undergrad program), you won’t even have that baseline of having learned to unstick yourself, which is the foundation.

Even in a functioning software shop with mentorship, training, etc, some people just have an extra get-hard-shit-done level.

I think two things are going on:

• new graduates GPTd their way through college and didn’t actually learn anything
• the exceptional ones can see they’re exceptional and go get one of the monster overpay jobs in AI

That happened to my ex-wife, by a family member.

That she was expected to forgive and not make faces around afterward.

My boobs got groped in public the first year they were appealing to men. I didn’t even realize what had happened at first.

Edit: I’m trans and my boobs became first attractive to men in my 40s. The incident I’m describing happened in the US.

“digital ownership must be respected”

gets into bed with Meta and OpenAI

Stay humble and faithful and you will be rewarded in Datacenter Heaven.

Yeah my aunt can’t taste anything any more after covid, it’s awful.

Meanwhile I can poach a $1.50 chicken thigh in $0.75 of stock and it tastes like heaven, so that’s not my problem.

It’s actually the decline in quality that put me over the edge. Even the good local pizza place started tasting different, restaurant food is fuel like any other now, it’s not special.

40 years ago Wendy’s burgers were actually good.

Busywork fills time and can feel productive. I found it a constant temptation as an eng and pm.

I could spend a couple of hours thinking hard about an actual problem that needs solving, orrrrrr I could fuck around with the bug database doing stuff that gets counted by my boss…

And bosses need to be on alert that they aren’t giving out busywork and feeling good that their employees aren’t staring into space/doodling/chatting any more (which is often what thinking looks like).

The whole LLM thing needs to be studied for all of the cognitive dark patterns they are exploiting. It’s like a grift encyclopedia.

Furries and trans people.

Oh my that’s a good one!

I understand not wanting to be used on tap like that.

Like, “hey I’m over my depth here and I trust you” is very different from “I’m bored I bet I could lay that guy”, which is more what it sounds like.

So, it makes a ton more sense once you’ve been the person trying to get somebody to take the lead in an intimate physical encounter.

A big part of the dynamic there is that as the person who wants to concede the initiative, you want to make sure that the other person is really actually committed to the thing you’re thinking about. Getting kissed by someone who’s thinking about smash bros isn’t fun.

You know how there’s a trope where it’s satisfying for a beloved to be able to wipe their lover’s mind of anything else by looking them in the eyes a certain way? That sense of being desired in a compelling way is really important for a lot of people.

So, when somebody makes a gesture like that, it’s intended to hit different depending on where you are chemically. If you had been completely beguiled at that point, you probably would have goggled and stammered like Don Knotts and she would have said something like “come here, sit down”.

And we all know that some people trying to get off will absolutely fake that level of interest. I think it might make sense for people looking for a longer term connection to find themselves doing this, cause one of the fastest ways to fall in love is to have emotionally connected sex.

I was once at a woman’s place and we had talked for a while and ended up on her bed with her in underwear and a bra, lying with her head on my arm and her hand on my chest, she says “I’m horny” and I think “oh whoops I better head out so she can get herself off” and LEFT.

Useless lesbian, right? But also, maybe it’s better that the two of us didn’t have sex, because I didn’t really feel compelled to, she wouldn’t have wanted to unless I had felt that way, and now we can see each other around and we might feel a little awkward around each other but we didn’t get into a mismatched situation in terms of investment that night (I think?).

I’ve been in other similar situations where I didn’t particularly care what the other person’s emotional state was and just asked them to do what I wanted done to me.

This is all subconscious in nearly all cases imo, I’ve just been doing this a long time.

Good to know that straight men do this too, cause this is an absolutely classic lesbian scenario.

Bear Stearns, Yahoo?

Xerox, AT&T, sometimes companies die

Fantastic point by the author, and great job cutting and pasting!