When cheating, be respectful.

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摘要

TLDRIn this video, the author humorously reflects on their childhood experiences with summer reading assignments and the lengths they went to avoid reading, such as using Spark Notes. They draw parallels to their recent experiences hiring for a creative writing position, where many applicants submitted work that was clearly copied from AI tools like ChatGPT. The author emphasizes the importance of originality and respect in creative work, arguing that while AI can be a helpful tool, it should not replace genuine effort and creativity. They share anecdotes about job interviews, the challenges of finding qualified candidates, and the awkwardness of pointing out when someone has not put in the necessary work. Ultimately, the author advocates for using AI to enhance creativity rather than diminish it, and they express a desire for a more respectful approach to job applications and creative writing.

心得

  • 📚 Summer reading assignments can be a hassle!
  • 🤖 AI tools like ChatGPT should assist, not replace creativity.
  • 💼 Originality in job applications is crucial.
  • 😅 The author shares funny school anecdotes.
  • 📝 Respect for the creative process is important.
  • 👩‍🎓 Many applicants lack originality despite high qualifications.
  • 💬 Honest feedback in job interviews is valuable.
  • 🚗 Driving safely is essential, especially on weekends.
  • 📖 Rewording Spark Notes shows effort and respect.
  • 🎉 Enjoy your summer freedom!

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker reflects on their childhood experiences with summer reading and book reports, highlighting how students often resorted to using SparkNotes or CliffNotes to avoid reading the actual books. They emphasize the importance of rewording these summaries to show respect for the teacher and the effort put into the assignment, contrasting this with the current trend of using AI tools like ChatGPT for similar purposes.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker shares their experience of hiring for a creative writing position, noting that most applicants submitted proposals that were directly copied from ChatGPT. They express disappointment in the lack of originality and effort, emphasizing that using AI should enhance creativity rather than replace it. The speaker highlights the importance of showing respect in professional settings by putting in genuine effort.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The speaker discusses the challenges of job interviews and the awkwardness of pointing out when applicants have copied and pasted content. They reflect on their own experiences with job applications and the importance of providing constructive feedback to candidates, contrasting their approach with the common practice of ghosting applicants after interviews.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:22:16

    In the final segment, the speaker reiterates the importance of respect and originality in creative work, particularly when engaging with the media. They express concern over the lack of effort shown by many applicants and the potential consequences of this in professional settings. The speaker concludes with a light-hearted reflection on driving and the absurdity of road safety, wishing listeners a good night.

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视频问答

  • What is the main topic of the video?

    The video discusses the author's experiences with summer reading assignments, job applications, and the use of AI tools in creative writing.

  • Why did the author prefer using Spark Notes?

    The author preferred using Spark Notes to enjoy summer freedom instead of reading books.

  • What was the author's experience with job applications?

    The author found that many applicants copied and pasted from AI tools, lacking originality.

  • What does the author think about using AI tools like ChatGPT?

    The author believes AI tools should be used to assist in the creative process, not replace original thought.

  • How does the author feel about copying and pasting in job applications?

    The author feels it shows a lack of respect and effort, especially for creative roles.

  • What is the author's stance on job interviews?

    The author believes in being honest and providing feedback to all applicants.

  • What does the author compare using AI tools to?

    The author compares using AI tools to using Google for research, emphasizing they are tools to aid work.

  • What is the author's view on the job market?

    The author is surprised by the lack of originality among highly educated applicants.

  • What humorous anecdote does the author share from school?

    The author recalls pretending to listen in class while secretly watching a show on a portable media player.

  • What does the author hope for the future of job applications?

    The author hopes for more respect and originality in job applications.

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  • 00:00:01
    Hey everybody, how's it going? Hope
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    you're having a lovely day. When I was a
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    kid, we had this thing called book
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    reports we had to do in summer reading.
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    So with school, we had to go to school
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    from September through June, July and
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    August were the two months a year that
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    you had freedom. The two months of the
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    year that I did not have to raise my
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    hand and ask somebody for the right to
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    take a piss who would smirk like Mrs.
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    Freedelland did when she could just see
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    that I had been drinking water all day.
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    She said no in in the early and I anyway
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    I I I don't even want to go back to that
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    But the point is that you have to
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    be a special type of person to
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    derive pleasure and actually smirk when
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    you're denying a kid the right to go to
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    the bathroom. Anyway, it's two months a
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    year that that you're free of that
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    So, I didn't want to do the summer
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    reading. I wanted to enjoy my life. So,
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    what a lot of the kids did is we would
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    find spark notes or cliff notes and then
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    we would take the them and then we would
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    reword them and then that would be the
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    book report. We would reword the spark
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    notes in our own words. We didn't read
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    the book because we wanted to enjoy our
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    summer. Now, there was always one kid
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    that would write the cliff notes or the
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    spark notes chapters exactly as they
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    were. And very often they would fail
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    because the teacher knew. And a lot of
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    the times the teacher kind of knew what
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    the kids were doing. But as long it
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    wasn't even about the book report, it
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    was about the respect. Because if you
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    rewarded the spark notes in your or or
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    the cliff notes in your own words, you
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    what it shows is that you put in the
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    effort to keep that teacher from getting
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    in trouble if they were audited by their
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    department. So if the teacher's
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    department head looks over their
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    assignments and they see 30 different
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    copy and pasted Spark Notes, that
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    teacher and they all got an A, that
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    teacher's getting fired. However, if
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    each one of the book reports is worded
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    differently, then the person who's
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    skimming this is likely just going to
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    say, "Okay, yeah, you did your job." And
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    that that was what it was about. It was
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    about showing that basic respect that
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    you're not going to do or say something
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    that is going to cause me a great amount
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    of distress later because of your own
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    laziness. And I noticed something very
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    similar with chat GPT and Claude and
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    stuff like that. particularly chat GPT
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    because of how chat GPT words a lot of
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    things nowadays. So I I posted a job ad
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    for something that would have required
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    creative writing and dealing with people
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    in the media. And this job paid over
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    $100,000 a year. This job had full
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    health benefits. Not I'm not even
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    talking about like you get discount
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    health care. I'm talking about your
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    health care, medical, dental paid in
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    full, not just for you, but all of your
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    dependents. You know, it's not the best
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    job in the world, but the type of thing
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    where I feel like I can expect a
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    modum of of skill. And what I realized
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    is that I cannot I also realize that I'm
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    in the wrong lane. Whoops. I
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    forgot about this construction
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    That's where the 0 to 60 in 4 seconds
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    comes in handy from time to time.
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    Anyway, the uh Yeah, I forgot about
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    construction. I don't drive on Caesar
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    shops very often.
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    And with this job, I'm looking through
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    the proposals that I'm getting and I
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    hired somebody today. And I'm not
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    kidding. When she asked like, "Well,
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    what what was it?" My answer was, "You
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    were the only one that did not copy and
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    paste from chat
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    GPT." And I I've become an expert in
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    this because I had to go back and reword
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    all of my old articles for the wiki. So,
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    I started this Consumer Action Task
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    Force wiki. It goes over when companies
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    screw people over. And I don't know how
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    to use wiki text. I barely just learned
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    how to use markdown a few months ago
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    really well and I don't know how to do
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    wiki text. So I very often things
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    up. So what I would do is I would take
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    my wiki text. I would add excuse me I
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    just had a lot of pasta. I put it into
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    chat GPT and I would say do not change
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    my wording. Keep every word the same.
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    Fix the wiki text area where it looks
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    up. And I thought that what it
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    was doing was actually just fixing the
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    wiki text. It wasn't. It was changing
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    like make sure becomes ensure and
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    then the worst one that just delineate
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    makes it obvious that chat JBT does it
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    is is what I call like you know the two
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    punch combo of adjectives but the first
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    one is this template of saying something
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    I'm not AB I'm not just ABC I'm DEF with
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    XYZ you'll see that all the time like
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    I'm not just a repair technician I'm an
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    expert engineer highly qualified
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    robustly in his field that fixes MacBook
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    boards And they always use this stupid
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    dash. I don't know where it comes from.
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    It It's like It looks like a dash, but
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    it's longer than a dash. And what I'll
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    do sometimes is I'll ask the person,
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    "Can you show me which key on your
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    keyboard you use to type this?" And like
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    one person said Microsoft Word
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    autocompleted it to be larger. And like
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    fine, I'll give you something for that.
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    But a good 90% of them said I don't
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    know. And then there's also the all the
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    bolding And the reason I've gotten
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    really good at detecting this is because
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    I had to go back through every one of my
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    wiki articles and start looking
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    at them to figure out where it took my
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    wiki text and changed it when it was
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    fixing it. Also ignored what I said and
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    changed the wording when I
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    wasn't even intending for that to be the
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    case. And admittedly, I could have
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    double checked every single one, but you
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    know, it's a free wiki article like 99%
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    of the wording was the same. Like
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    looking to see if it changed make sure
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    to end sure, vice versa, whatever.
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    What I find interesting were the sheer
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    number of people that directly copied
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    and pasted. No, and that's the thing.
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    It's not something where it's not even
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    about me. It's about what will happen
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    when this person speaks with members of
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    the media. And when they do speak with
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    members of the media, how stupid all of
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    us are going to look when the that that
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    person in that newspaper reads this,
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    realizes the same thing that I saw, and
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    then decides, you know what? I am never
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    going to deal with you people ever. Like
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    I I know this is ridiculous. You put no
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    effort into this. You think I'm stupid.
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    You think I can't tell the robot wrote
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    this. you. your organization
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    and your cause. Maybe they wouldn't
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    be that mean. But the point is for the
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    for that I would expect somebody to be
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    able to do a little bit better than
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    that. It's it's about what would happen
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    with the department head. I just went I
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    took south instead of north.
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    Interesting. Oh, okay. I I thought I I
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    thought I had to pick up my bag
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    somewhere, but I actually don't. Okay,
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    this is
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    silly.
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    Yeah. Oh
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    man, I I do this every single time.
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    There's like three or four times I've
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    taken south because I thought I forgot
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    my back at the office and then I put my
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    my uh my hand over and I realized it's
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    right
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    here. I'm a dumbass.
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    Anyway, and one of the things is I feel
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    weird pointing this out. I feel like I'm
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    I feel like I'm pointing out that
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    somebody has their fly
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    down, but it's always awkward and like
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    on one hand, but it's not it doesn't
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    have that positive connotation to it of,
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    oh, thank you. You've done that so that
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    I can I can notice it because when your
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    fly is down, it's an accident. Whereas
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    this is something that you did on
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    purpose. So, I'm kind of pointing out
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    you thought I was Here's what why it
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    feels awkward. It feels like I'm
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    pointing out you think I'm so stupid
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    that I couldn't tell a copy and paste
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    from a
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    robot. And I'm not trying to make you
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    feel ashamed, but I also feel weird when
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    somebody asks me like why. Because one
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    of the things that I've done when I when
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    I do job interviews is I firstly I try
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    to contact everybody that's even
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    remotely qualified. And secondly, I
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    interview all of them. And third, I
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    contact every one of them to tell them
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    why they didn't get the job. If they
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    didn't, again, this is the type of
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    honesty that can really That's not
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    always fun, but I remember what it was
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    like to interview for 200 or 300 jobs.
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    Not interview, apply to two or 300 jobs,
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    get two interviews, and completely fail.
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    Like the only area where I have ever had
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    worse luck than trying job interviews
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    was like, you know, getting a date on
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    Tinder in 2016. It It's not something
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    that people enjoy. And also, you don't
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    get to practice doing job interviews
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    unless you do them regularly. You have
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    to do you have to practice in order to
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    get better. And if nobody ever
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    interviews you, then how are you going
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    to get better? Especially if they don't
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    tell
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    you. So I feel really it's really
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    awkward when somebody does this. I felt
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    less awkward telling people, "Yeah, I
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    mean it's obvious that you lied on your
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    resume here and there because these two
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    things contradict and if I call this
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    person, I see it." Like I don't even
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    mind. Everybody lies in the resume. Just
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    to be clear, like I don't even care
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    about that. It's just there are other
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    people that were more qualified for this
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    position. Even when that comes up,
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    that's weirdly less embarrassing than
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    pointing out to somebody that I know
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    that you copied and pasted this
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    I It's
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    just And it feels weird because I feel
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    like I should feel guilty for making my
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    decision that way. But I have no problem
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    with people using chat GBT and Claude
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    and everything else. It it makes stuff
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    faster. There are all these people out
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    there that will say ChatGpt is not going
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    to replace a programmer. Now, Chad GBT
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    is not going to replace a person. That's
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    not the point. It's a tool.
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    Google doesn't replace people, but it
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    sure as made it faster to find
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    stuff than going through the freaking
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    Dewey decimal
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    system. Google did not replace a
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    programmer. It didn't replace a lot of
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    different jobs. It just made it easier
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    to do them. I don't use chat GPT and
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    then have it answer all my life
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    questions in one prompt. you you feed it
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    certain pieces of information and then
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    you kind of slowly expand on it and then
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    you every time it gives you a piece of
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    information, you have a lead now, you
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    find a manual that goes over that
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    particular part and you look to find a
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    specific part that may apply to it that
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    you don't can't make sense of and you
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    feed it. It's a it's good for making it
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    easier for you to figure things out. It
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    doesn't figure it out for you. And I
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    have no problem if you use it. But one
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    of the worst areas where I think
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    somebody can use this tool is when
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    they're applying to a job where you're
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    going to be dealing with the media and
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    doing creative writing and every single
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    one besides one proposal was
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    directly copied and pasted. I'm talking
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    down to that long dash, the random
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    bolded everything else that it was
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    doing when I was trying to convert my my
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    wiki articles from like shittily written
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    wiki text to properly written wiki text.
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    So weird and so disappointing,
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    too. One
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    person. If I had this job listed at you,
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    $20,000 a year or something, I would get
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    it. And for all I know, the one person
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    took used Jad GBT for everything and
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    then just worded it in their own words.
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    And if that's the case, that's okay. I
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    ask questions on how they would go about
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    certain things and that's the important
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    thing with chat GBT even if somebody
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    rewords the chat GBT in their own words.
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    If I ask why would you do something like
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    this or what would you do if this
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    particular element of the plan goes X
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    instead of Y and I see how they react
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    and you can quickly tell if if like I'm
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    on the edge as to whether or not AI
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    wrote this ship. I can usually tell
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    based on your complete inability to
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    answer those questions whether or not
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    you wrote this. She had everything. I
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    mean, she she answered every single
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    question immediately. She did her
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    research. For all I know, Chad GPT wrote
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    the draft. But what she did is she took
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    the that was in chat. Yeah, I'm not
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    even saying that she used it, but let's
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    say she did. She probably took all those
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    little individual elements and said,
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    "Ah, now I know what to look for." So
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    instead of spending 15 minutes trying to
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    figure out what to look for, I have
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    spent 30 seconds and now I can then
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    spend that 10 minutes that I saved
  • 00:11:28
    trying to figure out where this is or
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    where to start actually taking in the
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    material and engaging with it and
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    learning. That's how you're supposed to
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    use that tool. That's how chat GBT and
  • 00:11:37
    Claude and all this other stuff is
  • 00:11:38
    supposed to work. It's supposed to save
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    you time and those annoying, mundane
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    tasks that bring you no value
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    otherwise. It's not supposed to be the
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    thing that like does everything for you.
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    You don't copy and paste the Spark
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    Notes. You reword it in your own words
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    because then when you get a quiz on the
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    instead of getting a zero, you can
  • 00:11:58
    get maybe a 60. And if you have a nice
  • 00:12:00
    teacher that's not Mrs. Freeland, she'll
  • 00:12:03
    curve it up a little bit. and of course
  • 00:12:05
    obviously let you go to the
  • 00:12:10
    bathroom. I'm not a keragin. I'm not
  • 00:12:12
    like I'm not a lid. I find these tools
  • 00:12:14
    very useful and I enjoy them. They're
  • 00:12:16
    great, but they're tools and they should
  • 00:12:19
    be used the way that they're intended to
  • 00:12:21
    be used. And I am I'm stunned at
  • 00:12:25
    the degree to which people use this
  • 00:12:28
    stuff and have no concept that how
  • 00:12:32
    transparent it is that they did none of
  • 00:12:34
    the work in writing out
  • 00:12:39
    anything. I'm not going to sit out here
  • 00:12:41
    and say nobody should use it or this is
  • 00:12:42
    stupid or anybody who uses this is a
  • 00:12:44
    because YouTube comments tend to
  • 00:12:47
    get really really black and white very
  • 00:12:48
    quickly.
  • 00:12:51
    I don't like
  • 00:12:58
    that. There's so many things. Making a
  • 00:13:02
    calendar look a little neater.
  • 00:13:06
    Fine. Fixing up some broken CSS and some
  • 00:13:10
    theme.
  • 00:13:11
    Sure. Creative writing
  • 00:13:14
    to and working with the
  • 00:13:16
    media and writing.
  • 00:13:21
    creating public-f facing text and images
  • 00:13:24
    that will get people excited about an
  • 00:13:26
    issue that they otherwise wouldn't care
  • 00:13:30
    about. I'm trying to think of a worse
  • 00:13:33
    area to use AI to do everything. I think
  • 00:13:37
    the the what was it called? The
  • 00:13:38
    Generrack. No,
  • 00:13:40
    gener something. Therak 25. There was
  • 00:13:43
    this machine in the 80s that was
  • 00:13:45
    supposed to give you targeted radiation,
  • 00:13:47
    something like that. And I don't know,
  • 00:13:50
    like there was some array out of bounds
  • 00:13:52
    error, some some face forgot a
  • 00:13:54
    comma somewhere and it was putting out
  • 00:13:56
    hundreds to thousands of times more
  • 00:13:58
    radiation and it killed people because
  • 00:14:00
    of a software
  • 00:14:01
    bug. Like that's that's another area
  • 00:14:04
    where you probably shouldn't trust
  • 00:14:05
    chatbt or at least use 40 instead of 4
  • 00:14:14
    mini. It's so it's really interesting
  • 00:14:18
    because when I look at this the these
  • 00:14:19
    are not people that barely passed high
  • 00:14:21
    school. I saw a thing at least three of
  • 00:14:23
    these applicants had master's degrees.
  • 00:14:25
    Master's
  • 00:14:27
    degrees. I have I have a high school
  • 00:14:29
    diploma. Every now and then I apply to
  • 00:14:32
    jobs just for the of it to see what
  • 00:14:33
    it's like. I do this about once every 18
  • 00:14:35
    months to three years just to remind
  • 00:14:37
    myself that I have to stay on my game
  • 00:14:39
    with my own company. That the moment I
  • 00:14:41
    lose my game with what I'm doing or with
  • 00:14:43
    anything, it's over. So, I'll apply to
  • 00:14:45
    random stuff just to see. And it'll be
  • 00:14:47
    interesting the amount of like
  • 00:14:49
    autorejects sometimes I'll get. This is
  • 00:14:50
    one job I got an autoreject from for not
  • 00:14:52
    having a college degree. Uh like I was I
  • 00:14:56
    wasn't qualified to do 60k customer
  • 00:14:58
    service framework. I mean, I realize I'm
  • 00:15:00
    not qualified for but the the
  • 00:15:02
    interesting thing is that on paper, so
  • 00:15:05
    many of these individuals, like 3.9 GPA,
  • 00:15:08
    this class, this uh project, and
  • 00:15:11
    everything in
  • 00:15:13
    school, and you literally copied and
  • 00:15:15
    pasted from a robot without
  • 00:15:18
    editing out anything. I know I'm
  • 00:15:20
    repeating myself, but I'm still stunned
  • 00:15:22
    at this. If it was one or two people,
  • 00:15:24
    that's it. But like, like over 20 people
  • 00:15:26
    applied for this job.
  • 00:15:28
    There's only one of them were either in
  • 00:15:30
    the cover or the proposal or anything
  • 00:15:34
    like
  • 00:15:37
    crazy. And if if there was somebody that
  • 00:15:40
    I thought showed promise, what I do is I
  • 00:15:42
    if I ask somebody back for a second
  • 00:15:43
    interview, I don't do that that
  • 00:15:45
    Facebook does where there's like five or
  • 00:15:47
    10 unpaid interviews. If you're
  • 00:15:48
    getting asked back for a second time,
  • 00:15:50
    I'm paying you because that that's your
  • 00:15:51
    time. You don't get your time back.
  • 00:15:54
    There's actually one person that wound
  • 00:15:55
    up showing up for this interview and
  • 00:15:56
    they were I I w I was running 45 minutes
  • 00:15:59
    late because I didn't realize how how
  • 00:16:00
    much the other ones were going to go. I
  • 00:16:01
    felt so guilty I gave this woman $100. I
  • 00:16:04
    I felt horrible. Just somebody sitting
  • 00:16:06
    there and I feel like I'm wasting their
  • 00:16:08
    time. I was talking to somebody that
  • 00:16:10
    used to work at Apple that was talking
  • 00:16:12
    about interviewing at MA. 11
  • 00:16:15
    interviews some of these people get
  • 00:16:16
    asked back for. I'm like, "Oh yeah, they
  • 00:16:18
    must have paid you well for that."
  • 00:16:20
    Zero. gargo my
  • 00:16:27
    balls. Sometimes when I talk to these
  • 00:16:30
    people, they'll think, "Oh, wow. You're
  • 00:16:31
    a great employer." I I don't think I'm a
  • 00:16:33
    great employer. I think I'm like a below
  • 00:16:34
    average employer. It's just everybody
  • 00:16:36
    else seems to be completing utter dog
  • 00:16:38
    How the hell do you ask somebody
  • 00:16:40
    back for 11 times? I don't even know how
  • 00:16:44
    that's legal. At what point do you
  • 00:16:46
    consider it unpaid work or or getting or
  • 00:16:51
    some below minimum wage and you're
  • 00:16:53
    breaking some sort of employment law or
  • 00:16:54
    contract
  • 00:16:56
    law? I almost kind of wonder if the
  • 00:16:58
    places that are having people come back
  • 00:17:00
    11 times are just looking for free
  • 00:17:02
    programming or their their department
  • 00:17:03
    doesn't have a budget for something or
  • 00:17:05
    they're not allowed to have somebody
  • 00:17:06
    else do something. So, you just keep
  • 00:17:08
    inviting back some PhD computer science
  • 00:17:10
    student over and over again to solve
  • 00:17:11
    your problem.
  • 00:17:13
    I should do that for my week when I have
  • 00:17:15
    a namespace issue. Yeah, that.
  • 00:17:18
    Instead of paying unto and dealing with
  • 00:17:20
    the the 10y old bank fee that
  • 00:17:22
    their middleman corrupt bank charges
  • 00:17:24
    every time that we've been trying to
  • 00:17:25
    track down for 3 months instead of
  • 00:17:27
    paying unto. Yeah, I'm just going to
  • 00:17:29
    start doing job interviews over and over
  • 00:17:30
    again. What a great idea. Just interview
  • 00:17:34
    the same person 15 times. I should have
  • 00:17:36
    given unto 11 job interviews instead of
  • 00:17:39
    hiring him. One every month. I would
  • 00:17:41
    have saved out on a year of
  • 00:17:44
    invoicing. We live in meme
  • 00:17:49
    world. That's about it. I just had to do
  • 00:17:52
    my
  • 00:17:55
    rant. It's a, you know, I remember when
  • 00:17:57
    I was in this this class, economics
  • 00:18:00
    class with Mr. Civility. It wasn't
  • 00:18:02
    interesting economics. It wasn't like
  • 00:18:03
    reading the Thomas Soul book or
  • 00:18:04
    something. It was the It was the driest,
  • 00:18:06
    most boring crap that you could ever
  • 00:18:08
    imagine that had the lowest amount of
  • 00:18:10
    relevance to anything. This person would
  • 00:18:12
    like to turn and I think he's used to
  • 00:18:14
    nobody letting him in. I always hope
  • 00:18:16
    that for each person that I let that I
  • 00:18:20
    let uh make their their lane change
  • 00:18:22
    without speeding up or something like
  • 00:18:24
    of New York will, it brings me
  • 00:18:26
    one step closer to going to heaven
  • 00:18:28
    someday or one step away from hell.
  • 00:18:31
    Maybe it'll just lower the temperature
  • 00:18:32
    down there when I eventually die and go
  • 00:18:35
    to some place very warm, make it very
  • 00:18:37
    warm instead of very
  • 00:18:40
    hot. I had this binder in front of me
  • 00:18:43
    and I had a Cohen
  • 00:18:45
    CO1
  • 00:18:46
    CO A2 portable media player. That's what
  • 00:18:50
    it was. And I would take a book from
  • 00:18:52
    another class. I had a binder,
  • 00:18:54
    three-wing binder. And in the center
  • 00:18:55
    ring, right in front of the center ring,
  • 00:18:57
    I would put that book. It was a It was
  • 00:18:59
    and I would have that book there and
  • 00:19:01
    then it would be leaning towards that
  • 00:19:04
    ring. And then on the other side of the
  • 00:19:05
    ring, I would put my Cohen A2 portable
  • 00:19:08
    media player, which was completely
  • 00:19:09
    blocked from view by the book. I would
  • 00:19:11
    then have my headphone, which I think
  • 00:19:13
    was a Shore E3C that I got used on eBay,
  • 00:19:16
    and it would be going all the way up my
  • 00:19:18
    shirt, up my shirt, uh, to my ear, going
  • 00:19:21
    around my ear, my left ear, because the
  • 00:19:23
    teacher was on the right and forward and
  • 00:19:25
    the right. And then I would put my hand
  • 00:19:27
    over my ear, my elbow down in the book,
  • 00:19:31
    and I would use my pen and pretend I was
  • 00:19:33
    writing as he was talking when in
  • 00:19:34
    reality I was watching season 5 of 24 on
  • 00:19:37
    my portable media
  • 00:19:39
    player. Rest in peace, Gregory. By the
  • 00:19:42
    way, Gregory, he was so good at playing
  • 00:19:44
    a douchebag. I
  • 00:19:45
    mean, the the ending of uh season 5
  • 00:19:49
    where he listen and a wonderful friend
  • 00:19:52
    Oh, and the camera turns to him as that
  • 00:19:54
    crazy music plays. Yeah, he he was so
  • 00:19:57
    good at playing a douchebag. I'm I'm
  • 00:19:59
    going to miss that guy. I would have
  • 00:20:00
    loved to see his work in other more of
  • 00:20:02
    his work.
  • 00:20:04
    But my teacher probably knew that that
  • 00:20:07
    was what I was doing.
  • 00:20:09
    He probably saw me at one point, but he
  • 00:20:11
    never called me on it because of the
  • 00:20:12
    sheer amount of work that I was doing to
  • 00:20:15
    to show respect for the class. I wasn't
  • 00:20:17
    listening to him, but I did I put in so
  • 00:20:20
    much effort to pretend that I was
  • 00:20:21
    listening to him out of respect for the
  • 00:20:23
    teacher. That's what matters. When the
  • 00:20:26
    department head walks by, is he going to
  • 00:20:28
    look at the teacher and get him in
  • 00:20:29
    trouble for letting kids do the break
  • 00:20:31
    the break the rules or is the department
  • 00:20:33
    head going to walk by and think that all
  • 00:20:35
    the kids in this class were listening or
  • 00:20:36
    at the very least that I was? Cuz that's
  • 00:20:38
    what it's
  • 00:20:39
    about. It's about the respect. I think I
  • 00:20:43
    I believe that there is a certain lack
  • 00:20:44
    of respect in copying and pasting the
  • 00:20:47
    chat GPT for a job that particularly
  • 00:20:50
    requires a certain level of creativity
  • 00:20:53
    like engaging with the audience and do
  • 00:20:55
    doing it in a manner that's really
  • 00:21:09
    exciting. It's Friday night, so I should
  • 00:21:12
    probably be driving in the right lane,
  • 00:21:13
    not the left here, because there's no
  • 00:21:16
    public transportation here, which means
  • 00:21:18
    that half of these people are likely
  • 00:21:19
    drunk. Drunk people combined with an
  • 00:21:23
    imaginary little line in the middle of
  • 00:21:24
    the road that we that we
  • 00:21:27
    uh outsource to the honor system is not
  • 00:21:31
    it. We're going to laugh at this
  • 00:21:33
    someday. The fact that we had these
  • 00:21:35
    4,000lb tanks that go 70 miles an hour,
  • 00:21:38
    they're right next to each other going
  • 00:21:39
    in opposite directions and the one thing
  • 00:21:42
    that separates them is a little
  • 00:21:45
    imaginary line in the center of the road
  • 00:21:47
    with no barrier. It's crazy.
  • 00:21:59
    I hope you all had a good Friday night
  • 00:22:01
    and I hope that you didn't drink or
  • 00:22:03
    drive. No good. No good. Or if you did
  • 00:22:08
    drink, then you live someplace with some
  • 00:22:10
    decent public
  • 00:22:11
    transportation. See you in the next one.
  • 00:22:14
    Bye now.
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