this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Please hire me for AI safety, I create active work place hazards around me and therefore small children and animals are not safe around me, but I really work hard (unless it is cleaning up).
Wonder if he is single.
This post also reminds me of the story I heard about a brilliant but weird math professor who had a tendency to touch walls when he walked around in the building. Eventually, in supreme cargo cult behavior, students also started to touch walls in an unconscious hope this would improve their math skills. Anyway this guys hopes and dreams to be hired would be shattered if he ever hears the people hiring him are a fan of Taleb.
Good that the communities first reaction is saying this is a mh red flag. (It is also a workplace red flag)
I have worked with a couple of these eager shitwits over the years, and they are awful. they'll effortgraft waaaay into a thing that they think is totes the solution, "deliver" it as "done" (aka "here's a branch that already does all that, we can take it live now"), which all so handily allows them to frame any questions/criticism/etc as "don't you think we need ${problem} to be solved?"
the. fucking. worst.
sudden flashback to when $eagerdev pushed a branch that implemented
test-infra
steered by ansible.. in which you needed to write secondary, entirely separate, roles/specs for thetest-infra
thing to "verify"(didn't even try to hook ansible definitions (frankly I wouldn't want to either (but if ansible weren't so fucking shit at what it does _that whole thing wouldn't have been necessary in the first place)))