AI is making everyone faster that I’ve seen. I’d say 30% of the tickets I’ve seen in the last month have been solved by just clicking the delegate to AI button
I'll be honest, just the idea of working there makes me feel like vomiting. For me, they are bizarrely evil. They're not evil like, "we're going to destroy our competition through anti competitive practices," (which they do), but "let's destroy a whole generation of minds."
And now with the glasses. I mean, jeeze. Can there be a stronger signal of not caring for others?
It's as if Meta sees people as cattle. Though I think a lot of techies see humans as cattle, truthfully.
What was your rationale?
I guess this question is out-of-the-blue, and I don't mean for you to justify your existence, but I've never understood why people choose to work for Meta.
Then he took a contracting gig for Meta. His rationalization was that the project was an ill-specified prototype that would never see the light of day - if they wanted to throw money at him for stuff like that, he would accept it.
That gig is finished, and he's now thoroughly disillusioned with working for big tech.
Both sell things that are bad for you, but that the consumer has complete control over whether or not to consume.
And not all of what Meta is selling is bad. There's a lot of information exchanged on Facebook, Instagram, etc. that are good for society. Like health/nutrition advice, etc.
Where livelihood is concerned, rational individuals with strong morals can do irrational, and immoral things (e.g., work at the Palantir's of the world).
TLDR: incentives don't just shape perception, they form it
