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this is such a funny grift. hope ceos are torturing themselves over whether the random noise interpreters will like them. imagine an exec staring in the mirror repeating a line over and over to develop the right intonation to fool ai

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am I understanding this correctly - they’re claiming that they essentially paid her 72k, but by taking the job she agreed to instantly spend $60,000 on luxury travel to the bahamas to hang out with her boss?

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it’s amazing how schools like these can graduate battalions of fools and people still take their diplomas as certificates of wordliness

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I’m not sure what you’re getting at. I think it’s a bit rude to try to explain the concept of reputation. the only other content in what you’re saying seems to amount to “it’s not a noisy signal of workplace ability,” which (a) is only a fraction of the social power these degree stamps hold (b) is not true (c) apparently is supported by the summoning of a bell curve, the holy symbol of naive applications of statistics to concepts of ability

(EDIT: I apologize for being prickly, I’m not on much sleep so I hope you can cut me some slack on that)

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well, I am one of those researchers at a top institution. all I can say is that I do not think the people at such places are actually on a different level than those at your more general R1. who goes where has a lot more to do with social clubs and research tastes than anything else.

I’m also a little puzzled because you write about tuition write offs (which I benefited from as well) but those are only really relevant to undergrads, who I think it would be questionable to describe as often being researchers.

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imagine someone pulls this out and you have no idea what it is. you’re kind of nervous and weirded out by the energy at this orgy but at least this will distract you. you look at your first card and it has a yudkowsky quote on it

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he’s clearly still convinced that if you could just purge the degenerates you’d get a utopia. but his post is a nice illustration of how if that actually happens they’ll just keep inventing new ways to classify people as degenerate. fascists need, at all times, a face to stamp on

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idk who this guy is, anyone feel like giving a primer?

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because of course this complete dipshit isn’t good at anything, he managed to google for this without uncovering the most basic facts about it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7705876/

Testosterone (T) therapy is routinely prescribed in adolescent males with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) or hypogonadism.

literally the opposite of what he thinks is true: hrt is trivially accessible, you just need a doctor to eyeball you and determine you’re not bro enough. BUT, only if you’re cis.

another fun fact along these lines: in the UK, you can get hrt over the counter, but only if you’re an old cis woman

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if I copy a coherent sentence into my clipboard, my clipboard becomes capable of consistently making coherent statements

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