It only gets worse if you don’t take action. If you can, quit and find a distraction unrelated to your career. Sometimes it takes years for people to bounce back, sometimes only months.
Can you imagine Palo Alto HS running this experiment today? Parents and students would be enraged. The teacher would be fired.
The point was to show how easy it is to get caught up in such movements (all of us are susceptible). There’s a good book that shares this story from an ordinary german citizen:
> All this brings us to the project I run: Enquo. It takes application-layer encryption to a new level, by providing a language- and framework-agnostic cryptosystem that also enables encrypted data to be efficiently queried by the database.
If you want people to use this, don't bury the lede.
Is this a problem worth solving? How does aws/gcp/azure solve for this?
Noticed this as well. I've gotten so frustrated with poor results for things I need, I've been using "Verbatim" mode to force Google to stop interpreting my terms. This was a pain, so ended up installing an extension that forces verbatim on every search.
My luxury belief is that AI Safety is a joke, but it's a dangerous belief as the benefits of AI will not be equally distributed and biasing towards caution could reduce future suffering. So...
Be cautious reading comments here as many of us are in the socioeconomic class
that luxury beliefs appeal to.
> if the distribution is significantly unlike the general distribution of the population, see that as an indicator that something is wrong.
most technical roles are >80% men (e.g., google) but companies don't provide breakdowns by functional roles to avoid conversation with people who think like this.
are you ageist if 12% of your talent isn't above the age of 60? once you open a debate about available talent, it ceases to be a useful metric.
> Uh, I'm pretty sure the best employees in any field are worth 10x what the worst employees are, whether you're writing code, assembling a car or gutting fish.
This is a big misconception. The difference is whether 10x talent is more valuable than 1x talent. You could be the worlds best fish gutter, but if you can't gut 10x more fish than the next guy, then your salary is capped and you're wasting your talent. In software, you can be 10x more productive than the next guy.
1. Developing beliefs and acting on them is a key part of leadership.
2. Without it, you limit career advancement.
3. It's a skill that can be learned.
> ... the deliberate abdication of decision-making
However unpopular, I strongly disagree with this take. Looking at the world like this is not productive.
Assuming others are acting maliciously obfuscates what's actually going on (decades of misaligned incentives in the case of FSA) and it removes personal agency.
Typescript is currently the best way to avoid the myriad of issues writing JS. It's an amazing hold over until we get native types. ECMAScript proposals take a long time, but it will eventually come.