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Unpopular opinion: you only hate chat gpt because it makes it harder to stack rank and discriminate against people.

So what everyone can write well now? great it's a tool! Just like moving faster because you drive a car.

The good news is you'll be easily able to hire for that writing job you need. The bad news is you won't be able to discriminate against candidates who are not as good with the written word.

Also, an obsession with the written word is a tenant of white supremacy [salute emoji]

Ian Rennie
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Man, this probably hits really hard if you're fuckin stupid.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Serious question: what does “stack rank” mean?

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

It's become really popular in large tech companies and it's fucking stupid.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. I’ve never even heard of the term before, and didn’t know if it was slang, a typo, or what. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to search for it.

Yet another word for the good ol' rank-and-yank. Great way to instantly make number go up by suddenly laying off 10-20% of your employees. The trick is making sure you've moved on to another department or another company before the predictable consequences take hold.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

I read that as "vitality cure" and didn't think twice about it, seemed the appropriate level of evil.