291–300 of 419 posts
The issue is that they are receiving excellent responses from everyone and can no longer discriminate against people who are not good at writing.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Growing your own muscle mass" is an artificial goal that exists because of tools. Our bodies evolved under the background assumption that daily back-breaking labor is necessary for survival, and rely on it to stay in good operating conditions. We've since all but eliminated most of that labor for most people - so now we're forced to engage in otherwise pointless activity called "exercise" that's physically hard on p…
And guess what, people's overall health and fitness have declined. Obesity is at an all time high. If you're in the US, there is a 40% chance you are obese. Your body likely contains very little muscle mass, you are extremely likely to die of side effects of metabolic syndrome. People are seeing the advent of machines to replace all physical labor and transportation, not gradually like in the 20th century, but within…
> there is a 40% chance you are obese.
Obesity is not a random variable — "darn, so unlucky for me to have fallen in the 40% bucket of obese people on birth": you fully (except in rare cases) control the factors that lead to obesity.
A solution to obesity is not to exercise but a varied diet, and eating less of it to match your energy needs (or be under when you are trying to lose weight). While you can achieve that by increasing your energy needs (exercise) and maintain energy input, you don't strictly have to.
Your link is also filled with funny "science" like the following:
> Neck circumference of more than 40.25 cm (15.85 in) for men ... is considered high-risk for metabolic syndrome.
Darn, as a 195cm / 6'5" male and neck circumference of 41cm (had to measure since I suspected I am close), I am busted. Obviously it correlates, just like BMI does (which is actually "smarter" because it controls for height), but this is just silly.
Since you just argued a point someone was not making: I am not saying there are no benefits to physical activity, just that obesity and physical activity — while correlated, are not causally linked. And the problems when you are obese are not the same as those of being physically inactive.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It reminded me of the time Roy Wood Jr visited a pro-gun rally where they argued guns make people safe, while simultaneously asking people to not carry guns because they were worried about safety. The cognitive dissonance is worth pointing out. Well, no. It's irony, but it's only cognitive dissonance in a comedy show which misses the nuance. Most pro-gun organizations are heavily into gun safety. The message is tha…
Huge miss on the gun analogy. The likes of NRA are pushing for 50-state constitutional carry. Everyone has a gun on their person with no licensing requirements. Yet at the NRA conference they ban guns. There’s probably actually some other hidden factor though, like the venue not allowing it. Edit: FWIW those late night TV shows are nothing but rage bait low brow “comedy” that divides the country. But the above remain…
> Everyone has a gun on their person with no licensing requirements. Yet at the NRA conference they ban guns.
yet, you claim that it's the late night TV that divides us, while making sure to double down on your misleading statement.
The NRA doesn't "ban guns at their conferences", they have been banned at small parts of a multi-day conferences e.g. where Trump was speaking because that was a rule established by the secret service and they complied for a small part of the conference.
When the majority of a conference allows guns, it's simply a lie to claim that guns were banned. An unintentional lie, I'm sure, but it seems likely to be the result of you believing some headline or tweet and accepting something wholesale as truth because it fit your narrative. I'm guilty of the same, it happens, but hopefully we can both get better about portraying easily fact checked things as the truth.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huge miss on the gun analogy. The likes of NRA are pushing for 50-state constitutional carry. Everyone has a gun on their person with no licensing requirements. Yet at the NRA conference they ban guns. There’s probably actually some other hidden factor though, like the venue not allowing it. Edit: FWIW those late night TV shows are nothing but rage bait low brow “comedy” that divides the country. But the above remain…
> Everyone has a gun on their person with no licensing requirements. Yet at the NRA conference they ban guns. That's not what the NRA is pushing for, any more than there are Democrats pushing for mandatory sex changes for all kids (yes, this is cited on similar right-wing comedy shows, and individuals on the right believe it). Pushing for a right doesn't mean 100% of the population will exercise that right. And yes,…
LEOs are expected to take fire to protect civilians. Protect & Serve is their credo.
I wouldn’t trust LEOs to protect me, so I sure as hell fire am not trusting a low paid rent-a-cop to perform a similar duty.
Nope. I believe that my mindset is prevalent and not an outlier.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with your sentiment. But coming from a generative AI company that says "career development" and "communication" are among their two most popular use cases... That's like a tobacco company telling employees they are not permitted to smoke tobacco
A brewery telling their employees to not drink the product while at work?
I'll be the contrarian and say that I don't find anything wrong with this, and if I were a candidate I'd simply take this as useful information for the application process. They do encourage use of AI, but they're asking nicely to write my own texts for the application - that's a reasonable request, and I'd have nothing against complying. sshine reply above is coming from a very conflictual mindset. "Can I still use…
> I don't find anything wrong with this It’s not about being wrong, it’s about being ironic. We have LLMs shoved down our throats as this new way to communicate—we are encouraged to ask them to make our writing “friendlier” or “more professional”—and then one of the companies creating such a tool asks the very people most interested in it to not use it for the exact purpose we’ve been told it’s good at. They are aski…
> please do not use AI assistants during the application process. We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. There are two backwards things with this: 1) You can't ask people to not use AI when careful, responsible use is undetectable. It just isn't a realistic request. You'll have great repl…
Can't disagree more. Talent is built and perfected upon thousands hours practice, LLMs just make you lazy. One thing people with seniority in the field don't realize, as I guess you are, is that LLMs don't help develop "muscle memory" in young practioners, it just make them miserable, often caged in an infinite feedback loop of bug fixing or trying to untangle a code mess. They may extract some value by using it for…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It reminded me of the time Roy Wood Jr visited a pro-gun rally where they argued guns make people safe, while simultaneously asking people to not carry guns because they were worried about safety. The cognitive dissonance is worth pointing out. Well, no. It's irony, but it's only cognitive dissonance in a comedy show which misses the nuance. Most pro-gun organizations are heavily into gun safety. The message is tha…
These are the same people that insist we arm elementary school teachers and expect those teachers to someday pull the trigger on a child instead of having proper gun laws. There is no irony.
When have criminals EVER followed law, code, rules, or even a suggestion from their fellow citizens?
Believing laws deter criminals is almost criminally insane and beggars all logic.
After all of the accumulated evidence against your belief, you still believe laws deter criminality.
The death penalty doesn’t deter criminals. How could words possibly have an effect?
Everyone arguing for LLMs as a corrupting crutch needs to explain why this time is different: why the grammar-checkers-are-crutches, don't-use-wikipedia, spell-check-is-a-crutch, etc. etc. people were all wrong, but this time the tool really is somehow unacceptable.
For me the difference is that using an LLM requires a insane amount of work from the interviewer. Fair enough that you'd use Copilot day to day, but can you actually prompt it? Are you able to judge the quality of the output (or where you planning on just pawning that of to your code-reviewer). The spell checker is a good example, do you trust it blindly, or are you literate enough to spot when it makes mistakes?
The "being able to spot the mistakes" is what an interviewer wants to know. Can you actually reason about a problem and sadly many cannot.