Ryan
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I have a hard time believing that I am just unhireable. But I have an even harder time believing that my 25 years of experience is somehow negated by the format of my resume.
But, after over 2,000 applications, I am not sure what else to think. And, out of the dozens of emails (perhaps over 100) to hiring managers with inquiries about what might be happening, I have received ZERO response.
I have done some reverse engineering of some popular ATS systems and found some interesting trends; things like translating words like "founder" and "freelancer" to "unemployed", as one example (though, admittedly, the end user of the ATS is responsible for such translations). So, now add to everything else, I am being punished for running successful businesses for over a decade.
Kind of at the end of my rope here. I have to start thinking about what retirement looks like, and I am just plain NOT HIREABLE. Career change at this point doesn't seem likely. I have literally never done anything professionally other than write software (at least, not since college anyway). This is actually going to start affecting my way of life, my standard of living, not to mention the people that count on me to provide.
Please don't take this as anything more than venting. I am not blaming anyone, and I am not looking for sympathy. I know a lot of you are experiencing a very similar situation!
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I don't know if this is rare, but an amusing thing that I've seen on a lot of internal sentiment surveys (particularly for successful but sprawling enterprise products) is a Sales team that has intense confidence in your product and a Product team with much lower confidence.
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Always with the finger pointing, this guy. And always in the same direction.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
Further, the employee activism movements of the last decade removed sentiment from many CEO's. The bill has come due for a tremendous amount of misbehavior.
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The only conditions under which Americans should even remotely tolerate widespread automation are complete deregulation, elimination of all income taxation, and pure laissez-faire markets. Any alternative should be met with as fierce resistance as is necessary to prevent the suffering of the people.
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@pmarca If a big companies cannot carry enough employees to maintain a stable, prosperous nation and economy, do those big companies deserve to exist? Because we all know they benefit in excess from a mixed economy. They’ll have to answer for that, one way or another.
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The confounding factor is that virtually every big company is overstaffed by 2-4x and has been for decades. AI is the catalyst/excuse to finally fix that. Of course nobody wants to say this out loud.
rohit@krishnanrohit
One bearish sign of all the AI layoffs is that the companies couldn't figure out how to produce even more by keeping the people and adding AI. I'm not entirely sure how to think about this.
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@tylenologist @ChudTheBuilder He’s obsessed and embarrassing. He exists solely in relation to that which he despises in the same way that reddit-tier atheists (read: Dawkins) exist only in relation to God. Blacks are his prerequisite. Bitchmade indeed.
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@MaskTheMovie The only cure for what Jordan has is retardmaxxing. Would fix him overnight if he committed to it.
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i ate 6-12mg of xannys every single day for eleven years and quit cold turkey with no problems. this sounds like a skill issue unfortunately.
New York Post@nypost
Inside Jordan Peterson's 'brutally painful' illness as his wife reveals he's suffering serious side effects from benzo withdrawal trib.al/Ha9kXj3
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Like @ChudTheBuilder only closet homosexuals spend their energy on this kind of thinking. Such speech, when present in a man, is a pathologically feminine inversion. This is what impotence looks like in public.
Many such cases.
Alexander Dugin@AGDugin
I am more white than (almost) all of you. I am indo-European (Aryan) and proud to be it. You are wrong Aryans. Liberal, weak, pervert. You are modern. This kind of whiteness is shame. Real whites are Iranians, Indians, evolians. All the rest is a thrash.
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@buccocapital Technically true, literal psychosis. Maximum span of control has been studied for centuries and formalized into scientific findings by the US DoD for the modern era.
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Got a chuckle out of reading Brian’s Coinbase layoff memo where he says every manager will have 15 direct reports and also be an IC
This is what I mean when I say that every tech executive has AI psychosis
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@won__sikkk @staysaasy This is just not true for critical, mature software. The past few years have made it very obvious who is running workloads in GovCloud and who isn’t.
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@staysaasy AI tools made the senior IC path more viable than ever. You no longer need to manage a team to produce team-level output. One person with AI tools ships what five people used to.
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The idea of a very good senior IC who goes their whole career without ever managing anyone is entirely new phenomena.
Throughout history if you were senior and great you managed people. That’s just how it is.
It’s definitely cool to have this new paradigm for people to work in.
But sometimes you see someone who is indignant, entitled, thinks they’re really great, despises all “managers”, and treats managing people like some lesser calling.
That is bullshit.
And this whole trend to say management is dead is bullshit.
There’s nothing that new tech does that makes people particularly more able to manage more people. The only thing that’s changed is the existence of mega companies that can pay people ungodly sums.
So it’s not like 50 people suddenly became manageable. But history never had organizations that could do the equivalent of hire 50 of the best professors in the entire world on staff.
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It’s a shame and a pity that a rigorous thinker able to gain an alternative vantage on faith and believers, such as yourself, takes a position of contempt after failing at your own apologetics. It’s not that your own position misses the point, lacks utility and functional context, or is, in the end, void. It’s just that everyone else is retarded.
Many such cases. The ultimate misanthropy does not concern itself, apparently, with the rich human symbol set. In fact, it hates it.
I’ve met a lot of atheists, but never one that existed in any posture other than conflict with believers. Revealing.
Aside: atheists will never properly simulate human cognition because they’re just not curious.
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@justindeanlee Many of us have decided that "challenging faith" is a waste of energy, because believers are so emotionally locked into their delusional systems trying to lift them out with rational argument is pointless.
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Our civilization is no longer capable of producing atheists intellectually curious enough to challenge faith. The arguments of the most lauded living atheist philosophers amount to the dreck below. None of these guys can even define "God."
All atheism is reddit-tier atheism.
christian@cxgonzalez
how do people actually believe in a literal resurrection without lobotomizing themselves? like the universe is causally closed and follows the laws of physics always except for that one time with very poor documentation and all the incentive in the world to fabricate?
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People are creative. Once their basic needs are covered, they’ll find new things to do with their time.
There is no inherent meaning in the struggle to feed yourself or keep yourself and your family healthy. I genuinely don’t understand why so many people put slavery on a pedestal.
molson 🧠⚙️@Molson_Hart
Universal basic income will never work. Cash payments from the government turn people into depressed Netflix watching TikTok scrolling societal parasites. In this 2070s utopian fantasy where we have this excessive output, government can create jobs instead of UBI salaries. Even if a futuristic robot can do the job, a human can help and provide a smile. Deep down inside us is a need to help others. If we don’t do it, we rot. And where would you rather live? In a country where people earn what they need through work or in one where they just get it for free, no work or contribution to society required? The answer is obvious.
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@AndyJungTech @apralky UBI would result in full-scale, 4th Gen civil war.
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“UBI” is obviously nowhere near the panacea many of you seem to think it is. The median left-leaning Westerner isn’t angry at Elon Musk because he can buy a million times more groceries than them. They aren’t upset with Palantir because Peter Thiel can afford to eat a thousand burgers to their one. This whole thing is in large part post-material. It’s the hierarchy & subordination they’re uncomfortable with. They feel their dignity is being trampled and their autonomy progressively diminished – rightly or wrongly they feel politically disenfranchised and stripped of a say over the future. Offering a guaranteed food budget and a pod to spend the night in return for further disempowerment is incredibly tone-deaf and should be expected to provoke more, not less, outrage.
keysmashbandit@keysmashbandit
Actually this is correct and I'd go further. Beyond PR, the moral move is for big labs to start heavily investing in UBI lobbyists, thinktanks, whatever, to mitigate the risk of economic upheaval. A better world is possible!
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@drydenwtbrown To be clear: you are in fundamental conflict with the oldest story (‘wisdom’) that humans have ever recorded about themselves.
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GenX / Boomers, right and left, are so deeply spellbound by Economic Materialism that they cannot see what’s right in front of them.
UBI is inevitable. Question the assumption that economic productivity is required for humans to have meaning. It’s an absurd premise of which oldtroons cannot disabuse themselves.
Andrew Branca Show@TheBrancaShow
Love you, Elon, but you simply don't understand how normal human beings work.
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@imPenny2x The promised outcome is identical: the land of milk and honey. When someone who’s philosophically bankrupt and godless, and virtualizes humans without instantiating their fundamental nature, I always want to laugh.
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When someone calls AI and robotic enabled Universal High Income the same thing as socialism/communism, I always want to laugh.
It signals that they don’t understand any better than the silly collectivists themselves why the two later systems create inferior incentives for high skill or high value producers and were doomed to fail from the start.
Robotic labor doesn’t operate under the same incentives as humans, and never before has any system whatsoever seen a production or automation boom that even remotely resembles what we will see over the next few years.
There is no compounding labor in socialism.
All the rules change when the entire game changes.
Think ahead.
Can you see the difference?
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@NewJerusalemAI @BenjaminDEKR The distributed free market solves for this over time. That is literally its function and purpose. The idea that the future is “figured out” by central planners to mitigate “suffering” is the communist road to hell.
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@BenjaminDEKR Well you have 1 to 5 years TOPs to figure it out, and everyday you wait people are suffering.
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So why don't we just...... let this predicted deflation happen?
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Your statement is true if goods & services output doesn’t rise dramatically due to AI/robots, but false if it does. In a normal economy, issuing more money simply increases the dollar price of the existing output of goods & services, meaning people do NOT get more stuff. If AI/robots massively increase goods & services output, then you actually MUST issue dollars to people or there will be massive disinflation. Prices are simply the ratio of goods & services output to number of dollars.
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@powerbottomdad1 @M0rg4nfr33ch1ld These people are religious adherents and as such, cannot be reasoned with.
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genuinely how am i supposed to feel anything but hatred for a man who says me or my children will lose our jobs, offers no solutions, and gets rich off doing so? all the while being smug and condescending
maybe he should go fuck his own asshole?
TFTC@TFTC21
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years.”
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@elonmusk @ImKingGinger It’s impossible to increase output of all goods and services uniformly. Some goods output volume will never increase.
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Your statement is true if goods & services output doesn’t rise dramatically due to AI/robots, but false if it does.
In a normal economy, issuing more money simply increases the dollar price of the existing output of goods & services, meaning people do NOT get more stuff.
If AI/robots massively increase goods & services output, then you actually MUST issue dollars to people or there will be massive disinflation. Prices are simply the ratio of goods & services output to number of dollars.
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If everyone gets a million dollars.
No one has a million dollars.
I'm not sure why no one understands this.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.
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