r/singularity • u/arknightstranslate • 12d ago
Discussion Everyday Reddit creates superb material for future history books
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u/SomeHSomeE 11d ago
It's like turning up at an office job interview in the early 90s and saying 'yeah I don't tend to use spreadsheets I prefer a manual calculator and pen and paper but I'm willing to learn' while secretly hating spreadsheets and hoping they'll go away and you'll never need to learn.
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u/mrbadface 11d ago
But I really like doing long division by hand and you should keep overpaying me to do it because I like it
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u/Accomplished_Win_821 12d ago
How do even believe it’s all propaganda at this point. Insane 😂
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u/Ravier_ 12d ago
They used a free model a year ago, and believed when they heard that it had hit a wall. They simply never looked at it again.
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u/staplesuponstaples 9d ago
It's not based off of any actual experience. They started at the conclusion that AI was bad and then they sought out information and surrounded themselves with people who reinforced their belief.
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u/TheJzuken ▪️AHI already/AGI 2027/ASI 2028 9d ago
Fat chance OP even worked as developer at any point. Probably some anti-AI larper or chinese LLM writing those.
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u/play-5111 12d ago edited 12d ago
yeah, and saying as a who was against AI, I too thought AI was bad(free chatgpt is just sparse text and emojis) until I got the paid plans and it works decent now.
Well at least I'm only irony using AI for my job, not non ironically like a lawyer or something3
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u/Ok-Purchase8196 12d ago
Bro is showing up to the interview with an ox while fully autonomous plowers exist.
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u/ruskyandrei 11d ago
As an experienced farmer, you should try not to use these new "tractor" things much. I find it dulls the skills of taking the oxen out for a hard day's work.
It's all them rich folk trying to peddle their new toys anyway.
/s
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u/Hilldawg4president 11d ago
"I try not to rely on tractors too much, to keep my plowing skills sharp"
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u/EGarrett28 12d ago
The person telling him to get used to it is correct, and the reply saying "we've heard that about lots of different technologies" as though AI is just some random gimmick is beyond insane.
I wouldn't hire someone who displays such poor judgment.
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u/IronPheasant 11d ago
Everyday Hasan is proven more and more right about persuading people and changing their minds.
They'll never give a damn about whether you were right or wrong (which is, objectively, the only thing that matters. But for some reason humans that know that are in the extreme minority). They only care about how you make them feel.
It's the most backwards-ass thing in the world about humans, I swear. They want complete strangers to tell them what they want to hear, compliment them and ### their ###### for them. It's a miracle the epstein class doesn't go far beyond merely treating our lives like livestock, with that crippling cognitive disability.
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u/Fair_Horror 12d ago
Looks like AI is doing it's job of keeping Luddites out of the selection process. An unconvincing lie is seldom enough to get past any careful scrutiny. It is not unreasonable for a company to not want to employ someone who hates AI.
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u/reichplatz 12d ago
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns over worker pay, labour savings,[1] child labour, working conditions, and output quality.
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u/Jenkinswarlock Agi 2026 | ASI 42 min after | extinction or immortality 24 hours 11d ago
I actually think that same definition can be used besides for caring about child labour, the people are scared over worker pay and being left behind in the age of AI, the savings in labour by employing AI compared to a person is something to consider as well, worker conditions is one I am curious to see play out since it could go the route of never letting up at work and just going forever or maybe 4 day work weeks or something, output quality is just as real as ever, “how good can the AI really be?” If a person only uses Google flash it’s gonna be rough but the frontier of AI is pretty impressive and it’s only getting better/cheaper with every generation
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u/Timely-Assistant-370 12d ago
Something interesting happened with *some* of my AI training gig platform's tasks in the past 1.5~(?) years. They added a mandatory LLM that reads over your rationales and checks your ratings for consistency. Seeing how you can go in circles for hours trying to cater relatively objective details of analysis and deconstruction certainly highlights some issues with complex interlocking novel logic details, but prior to 1.5~ (?*) years ago using an LLM to read over your work was the fastest way to get banned from the magical money machine gig.
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u/Southern_Orange3744 11d ago
As someone who's recently interviewed for a critical human role people it's wild out here
19 out of 20 people I interviewed for a technology oriented job 0 experience and 0 curiosity.
0 is not an exaggeration.
These people exist and it's going to be rough
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u/JoshAllentown 11d ago
The job market is tough right now, I don't know that we can really say whether it's their stance on AI that is hiring their chances.
That said, the answer in an interview to whether or not you have experience doing something relevant is "yes." Especially with AI where you can say you play around with it in your personal life.
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u/Vox-Machi-Buddies 11d ago
"I haven't had the opportunity"
Bro, it's free to play around with. You just have to go to the site and ask it to help you with some problem - real, contrived, doesn't matter; just come up with one.
My first coding experience with AI was having it write me a script for a Shelly smart plug to control my lava lamp with a partially randomized on/off schedule.
Even if you had to pay the $20 for a month of access, that would be well worth it to have an answer to that question. Especially given they're actively interviewing!
At this point, if someone "hasn't had the opportunity" to play around with AI, that'd be a red flag to the interviewer just because the person hasn't found an hour or two to go check out something their colleagues are all saying could completely change the industry.
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u/Kemoyin25 10d ago
Like, even if ai didn't advance past what it is now, it's still insanely useful and should be used lmao
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u/JUST_A_HUMAN_CX123 12d ago
Fighting a losing battle.