Was Google the only company at which that happened? It was not, and *everyone in tech knows it.*
CULTURE
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Quality Crisis in AI-Generated Content Over Recent Years
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I do not think that people appreciate how many gigabytes of Holy Shit You Put That In Writing And Think You Deserve A Gold Star For Doing So were authored the last few years.
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Tech Industry Hiring Decisions: Management Chain Concerns
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Chat logs where a hundred employees up and down the management chain said "We should not hire X." These exist up and down e.g. the tech industry.
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AI Reimagines Classic Mario Character in Surprising New Way
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can't believe they re-did mario like this
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AI-Powered Engagement Algorithms Will Transform User Content Preferences
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Nah, people will just get used to it. Most of them will actually prefer it. Especially videos made just for you from scratch. If you think the current engagement algos are powerful, just wait to see what happens when they are turbocharged with AI.
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Legal Realism: When High-Status Institutions Ignore Law
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I am willing to credit legal realism to a degree, and know that many sophisticated people thought “Oh sure the law says that but all high-status institutions are doing the other thing and in case of conflict we win.” Cultures change over time and sometimes rapidly.
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Podcast Format Enhances Learning Through Conversational Engagement
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"The podcast style of information made me feel like I was part of a conversation rather than being lectured to, which helped me understand the ideas discussed in a way that I wasn’t expecting to."
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Textbooks versus personalized learning in government education
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There was one subject where textbook still reigned supreme: government. The paper has an interesting hypothesis that the subject was just the least broad/hardest to tie to personalized interests like Kpop or gaming
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Workplace Discrimination Legal Standards and Corporate Accountability
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Also, relatedly, “hostile work environment” is a layup. Traditional standard is “You persistently made people feel subtly unwelcome.” Facts on ground are “You openly announced discriminatory intent, repeatedly, while forcing employees to endorse it.”
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Legal Risks of Diversity Initiatives in Tech Engineering
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And the evidentiary record in many coming cases will include “Management did a recorded Zoom call saying, and this is a quote, ‘Everyone knows we have too many white and Asian males in engineering. We are working urgently to diversify the pipeline in Q3.’”