Yeet_far
6mo ago
I think there's an important difference between a true P-zombie (i.e. actually impossible to distinguish from a real person) and a good-enough P-zombie (i.e. good enough that no human can distinguish from it from a real person)
The first well may be impossible and/or incoherent, but the existence of LLMs imply that the second probably isn't (at least if you don't think they're sentient now)?
And for the purposes of the story, a good-enough P-zombie is all you need.
But yeah, what exactly happened is left as an exercise to the reader. This was a fun post to read because I had thought the P-zombie(ish) reading was the obvious one, but reading through your and others thoughts has shown me that it's clearly not!
Yeet_far
6mo ago
I thought the implication was that the earring-user had been turned into a p-zombie?
i.e. the earring is puppeting their autonomic nervous system so that from an external perspective it looks like they're living their best life, but they are dead (and have been for years) in the sense that they no longer have any interiority at all?
To me at least, that was the horror: not that they had been replaced by an alien consciousness, but that there was actually nothing there--just the earring (which is not emulating their mind; it has its own 'mind' which has nothing to do with its wearer and hasn't particularly changed across wearers) sending motor-nerve impulses.
But it's certainly not made explicit either way in the text!
Yeet_far
8mo ago
Eeeeh I really think it depends where you're applying, again. There are plenty of places where a junior resume with more than one page is an immediate black mark.
Apparently there are lots of places where that'a not true as well, which is cool!
But it is Definitely A Thing in the circles I run in.
Yeet_far
8mo ago
Huh, interesting. Good to know!
I guess the other question here would be: barring specific length, do you think this resume generally looks good? Would you also push back against my formatting advice, or not so much?
Yeet_far
8mo ago
So, I know you probably aren't really looking for resume advice, but I can't just leave this. If you are applying to tech jobs, your resume should not be more than one page.
You can easily fit what you have into one page. The fact that you haven't gives any interviewer who gets your resume a negative first impression. It shows you lack fastidiousness.
Also the formatting is ... not great. Your headers don't pop, and to be frank, it looks like you put this together in Google Docs. There is nothing wrong with writing a resume in Google Docs, but it can't look like it.
If you just google "Good Tech Resumes" you'll find plenty of examples, but as a "I found this with a few minutes of searching", consider https://old.reddit.com/r/technicalwriting/comments/1b11gw9/resume_template_that_gets_me_interviews_and_got/
One page, clear headings, doesn't look like a default Google Docs document.
I know this seems nitpicky, but it's really important. You will be far better served job hunting spending ten hours working on a really good resume than spending ten hours applying to jobs if you're having trouble getting callbacks, which it sounds like you are. And having a good resume is a lot easier than having a good github.
Source: I work in FAANG and occasionally do interviews. Take this with increasingly large grains of salt depending how far away from a FAANG position you're applying to. To the best of my knowledge, this is industry-wide, but ???
Yeet_far
9mo ago
spelling: oops, thanks!
content: Interesting. I have had a very different experience, but I think we tend to follow very different types of youtube channels.
However, this is kind of irrelevant to my original point. The statement I was responding to was simply:
I mean, ideally I'd be able to pay the individual channels that I like watching money, based on my usage, and have YouTube take some percentage of that.
Given that my only option though is to pay $13.99 directly to YouTube, I think I'll pass
My point is that you can do that, right now. You can give money to specific channels you like. You don't even have to give youtube anything. If you claim to want to be able to pay channels individually, go do that. It'll get you away from the (much more annoying) youtube ads, at least.
Or, like, get a Nebula subscription. They have exactly that model, and no ads on any of their videos at all.
???
Does it not?
Watching videos on Patreon definitely gets rid of youtube ads. And the only creators I've ever followed on Patreon have Patreon cuts without internal ads. I guess there could be someone who doesn't edit out the ads in the Patreon version of their videos? But that would be a bit shit and I certainly wouldn't give them my money.
Is there a specific creator you're thinking of that has a Patreon with ads?
*edit: spelling
Yeet_far
9mo ago
Many (most?) youtube channels have patreons where you can actually do that. Usually with extra perks.
Yeet_far
9mo ago
In the US context, he's mostly wrong, yeah?
Depending on your political alignment, "best president" lists vary widely, but I don't think I've ever seen one where adding territory was a particularly important criterion? It's not nothing, but domestic economics and policies (JFK on one end or Regan on the other) tend to generally be considered more important that territorial expansion?
Or winning wars (Washington, Lincoln, FDR), I guess, but most of those didn't actually come with territory.
The US is so big already and has so much wilderness already that adding more doesn't really move the needle all that much.
Do you think adding territory is what great leaders do in the modern day? Are there specific leaders you're thinking of?
Raw IQ as a ten year old does not really tell much about dilligence or attention to detail, which are at least as important for a lot of jobs.
I'd much rather have a concencious 115 IQ doctor than a 130 IQ doctor who doesn't care.
Raw intelligence is necessary for a lot of high-prestige jobs, but it's not sufficient.
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