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It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.
The sickle and hammer looking real interesting now.
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Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
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#362I did one of these once. Once . I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever. It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start. It was just that when I got done with it, I realized that I had talked at a computer for ~45 minutes. And, yet again, I was going to be ghosted by the company (I was), and that I was never going to get those 45 minutes back. That was time I co…
> I did one of these once. Once.
Please, please tell me this is a reference to Joe Piscopo's character in the movie Johnny Dangerously.
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#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.
The sickle and hammer looking real interesting now.
We (the US) had a very successful, carefully designed system that seems to have been an unstable configuration. It was neither hammer and sickle nor single megacorporation: it was balanced on a hill between both.
The combination of (1) checks and balances, (2) separation of money, religion, corporation, and government, and (3) regulation in moderation worked pretty well for around 200 years. Monopolies and labor abuses were mostly in check. Prosperity was widely shared. Churchill might have said it's "the worst possible system, except for all the others."
Around the mid 70s it started to go astray with the income gap and collection of obscene personal wealth and unchecked corporate powers. With the repeal of Citzens United, that was the end of it. We all know that playing defense against constant assault from an opponent with unlimited resources is a losing proposition.
If we do manage to oust the 1%, we could in theory reset to that decision point: with a few additional constitutional safeguards to keep money out of politics, strengthen ethics barriers for all three branches, etc, we might go another 200 years.
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I’m not that surprised. To reach the level of billionaire, it’s pretty much a requirement that you abandon all empathy and ethics. What’s surprising is that nobody in their circle has educated them on the concept of a win-win. These people could be folk heros, universally loved and respected in ways buying a social media platform and banning all the haters will never accomplish.
That's what's so incredibly stupid about the tariffs, immigration crackdowns, etc. Life is not a zero-sum game, and treating it like it is just makes it worse for everyone - unless you're the sort of person who really gets off on having other suffer worse than you.
What society or culture survived by taking the high road? I'm reminded of Princess Leia's quote: No! Alderaan is peaceful, we have no weapons.
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#365Take this entire paragraph and read carefully, and it explains how to kill this trend: > “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. “If there were a large portion of the job-seeking community that were wholesale rejecting this, our clients wouldn’t find the tool useful… This thing would…
Most job seekers don't have the luxury of choice.
Well, not with that attitude, they don't.
Boycotts are not pain-free. They require everyone to stick together and refuse to participate in behaviors that are not acceptable. I'd argue that most job seekers don't have the luxury to allow themselves to be diminished into irrelevance.
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#366I did one of these once. Once . I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever. It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start. It was just that when I got done with it, I realized that I had talked at a computer for ~45 minutes. And, yet again, I was going to be ghosted by the company (I was), and that I was never going to get those 45 minutes back. That was time I co…
Remember: interviews are a two-way street. What you did was not an interview, but an audition. And yes, I don't have the energy to be "performing" in an environment where most applications go ignored anyway.
That's why I won't do any. That and the privacy/profiling aspect.
Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
#367I did one of these once. Once . I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever. It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start. It was just that when I got done with it, I realized that I had talked at a computer for ~45 minutes. And, yet again, I was going to be ghosted by the company (I was), and that I was never going to get those 45 minutes back. That was time I co…
> I did one of these once. Once. Please, please tell me this is a reference to Joe Piscopo's character in the movie Johnny Dangerously.
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
The sickle and hammer looking real interesting now.
That's something only people of privilege in countries that never experienced what the sickle and hammer does to its people.
Non-hammer-and-sickle countries have done the same for centuries in order to amass wealth for its feudal lords. Only its targets used to be people in faraway lands whose humanity could be ignored in service of a 'civilizing mission', which just happened to tie in kindly with the interests of United Fruit Company, the East India Company, the South African diamond industry and countless others.
That arc of history is fast coming to an end as the easiest pickings for the feudal class today are right here at home. There's less resistance because the natives think their leaders are too civilized and their society too well-informed to end up on the pointy end of shareholder interests.
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Some very close haircuts.
When was the last instance of this in the last 100 years?
They're the ones trying to bring back feudalism. If they want feudalism, things are going to get... well feudal. The lesson I've learned in the past decade is that people have not changed, at all. People will act as medieval as their circumstances allow.
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#370Just a few years short of a movie's plot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(2023_film)