The funny thing about this and 99% of human-simulating AI products is that they suck now, but I don't see it impossible for them to get to a point where it is more enjoyable to talk to them than a normal human.
Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
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#702It is all almost making richer even more richer, instead of properly hiring people for HR, AI bots. Instead of having more people at the supermarket, have the customers work as if they were employees, the only thing missing is fetching stuff from warehouse when missing on the shelves, but still pay the same or more. Instead of paying to artists, do job ads using generated AI images with code magically showing off mon…
>Gotta watch out for those profits, except they forget people also need money to buy their goods.
And then we get the great turn of it all. Where governments opt to just sign contracts with these companies. Just hook the money printer up directly to the investor class and skip all these middle class middle people and the requirement to build a business that can stand on its own two feet.
What gets scary with this is people like Peter Thiel and friends are building a world for fewer people pretty overtly. There's the famous clip of him where Thiel hesitates to predict if humans will survive in the technological future. Probably because in the back of his mind he hopes the population of the U.S. diminishes to a couple hundred thousand people if that living a life of technologically supported luxury, while the descendants of the wageslaves have died out by then and don't threaten the power structure.
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#703Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the AI industry achieves its short-term goals, instead of paying a human $100,000/year to do some desk job, companies will pay Microsoft/Google/OpenAI/whoever $20,000/year in API tokens and keep the extra money for themselves. To me, this doesn't seem like a way to reduce wealth inequality, it seems like a way to accelerate it. Sure, there's nothing inherent to AI that makes it cause wealth inequality. However, li…
The point is that instead of having to complain about the ownership class, you can now be an owner more easily than before. AI enables people to do more on their own. You can build stuff that simply was not feasible before. You still have to do it though. If you prefer to be subject to the ownership class, I recommend being honest about why that is.
I, for one, just don't really believe that there's enough market for every person to have their own software business. There's only so many ideas that are interesting enough to be sold.
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#704> Still, stretched-thin HR teams say it’s the only way to handle thousands of applicants. You're doing it wrong if you're considering "thousands" of applicants. First of all ask your current good employees if they can refer anyone. If you need to go to resumes, sort by qualifications. Screen out obvious robo-applications, you know them when you see them just like you know spam email from the subject line alone. Hint:…
You are giving advice to some of the dumbest people in the country. I'm not saying its bad advice, but these people are universally stupid. I don't know exactly why things ended up this way, but I'd love to hear where this isn't a truth.
I took a run at recruiting recently and it's so easy to outperform recruiters that it's honestly depressing. Just replying to emails at the times I promised made candidates self-report that I'm the best recruiter they've ever worked with.
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#705It is all almost making richer even more richer, instead of properly hiring people for HR, AI bots. Instead of having more people at the supermarket, have the customers work as if they were employees, the only thing missing is fetching stuff from warehouse when missing on the shelves, but still pay the same or more. Instead of paying to artists, do job ads using generated AI images with code magically showing off mon…
The self-checkout is the one that gets me. I'm paying you money for products, and you both continuously raise prices, and make it less convenient for me to shop there. That is, unless I want to order it for delivery online, and pay an extra fee. Every retailer doesn't need to be Amazon. I don't even want Amazon to be like Amazon anymore. Maybe this is me getting older, or me having worked in technology too long - but…
If you don't like the self-check out line then go to the register with the cashier.
I always go to the self-check out because I can scan things faster myself.
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#707Take 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…
If you need a job in a tough job market you can't really afford to be picky about the opportunities. If I need a job I'm willing to put up with just about anything to get it, because the alternative is potential financial ruin for my family in a country with weak social safety nets. The last entry level job my company posted got over two thousand applicants in less than 24 hours before they paused submissions. I don'…
Did you put it on linkedin easyapply? That is part of the issue. So many applications I have done where its like 1 click to apply. How is this useful to people on either end? I have no clue about the job. They hardly know anything about me. game theory tells me to apply for all of these even if they are hardly relevant and the lack of friction enables it.
You want fewer candidates? Just post it on your website perhaps. You will then be limited to more ideal candidates that have identified your business as a potential fit for their skillsets, and have bothered to visit your careers page and put up with your own sisyphean system to repost what information is in the resume onto your form fields for hr who apparently cannot read a resume.
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#708Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the point of numbers if there is no unity? Since Covid, there are decent successes in forming unions and collective bargaining, but it is nowhere enough. How many IT workers (as an example) have unionized or even have positive opinions on unions? A handful of guys can effectively rule large groups of people for a long period of time, if the said large group can't unite, can't help each other.
Many IT folks were cocky during the post-COVID height. Some even mock Unions for making firings harder, worried that their "incompetent" co-workers difficult to boot.
Many people in software especially have been successfully convinced that any kind of unionisation will be to their detriment. That they’ll suffer lower wages and “difficult to fire bad workers” will be inevitable result of unions, despite both these things happening already.
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#709Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd hate being interviewed by a bot. Talking to these stupid automated answering machines is bad enough. That said, the other side of the equation is also bad, for employers. I was asked to conduct some interviews recently. I asked the most basic of questions (like absolutely basic stuff, "what is an interface?" level basic). The number of people who said "I don't know" is far less than the number of people who tried…
I think “what is an interface” would trip me up actually, haha. My thought process was: Well, most of the code I use uses a Reverse Communication Interface. But, I think these are pretty old-school projects, maybe I should start by talking about the Object Oriented interface to the library that we recently did. Or maybe I can talk about the file IO based interface that I did, it was extremely cursed but kind of funny…
Without looking anything up:
"Depends in which context we are talking about it, but in the broadest sense it is a defined systemic boundary between two different domains. E.g. a User interface marks the boundary between the user and the program, an API could mark the boundary between the program and other programs, an ABI can mark the boundary between binary data and programs who read that data and so on. Ideally you want those interfaces to be well defined as theh act as translation layers and other systems can start to rely on the shape of an interface. "
I could then talk about why interfaces can act as a decoupling layer etc.
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#710Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like we are already there. That these people are allowed to keep the profits they made through lying and environmental destruction-- ("um well actually compared to generations past we are much greener")-- is the most telling flaw in the system. They aren't penalized at all for lying, and not lying is a massive loss of potential profit. So then, why not lie, is their logic.
We are much greener though, at least in the West. Climate emissions peaked in Europe and North America in the last few decades (earlier in Europe.) In Europe, forests are growing back, because marginal agricultural land is being returned to forests as yields rise on prime land. I think this is beginning to happen in the US as well. This doesn't mean climate change isn't a problem, because even with this progress, we'…
That's right. So essentially we are in a deadlock where every side says "im only contributing fractionally to the problem", and nobody on Earth really has the full capability of blocking the activities you described from happening, especially not when there is good money to be made (e.g coal mining vs AI vs raising cows)
Doesn't seem like a bright future, but at least AI does have a chance of solving the problem while contributing to it. No other behavior could really say the same.