Anton Vredegoor wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > > >>I have a friend who works at Google. He has no backstabbing history at all. >>Stop >>insulting my friends. > > Your friends work for people who would never hire me. My resume sucks, > but I'm not a bad person or a mediocre programmer. They sold out. > >>For Software Engineer: >> >>""" >>Requirements: >> >> * BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD a plus). > > Right here.
This requirement is really funny. I thought google is somehow different. >> * Several years of software development experience. >> * Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems. >> * Experience with Unix/Linux or Windows environments, C++ development, >>distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, network >>programming and/or developing large software systems a plus. >>""" >> >>I don't see any "damaged soul" requirement. > > I do. Experience here is an eufemism for having worked for the man. I think I understand your thought. Although I have very much experience, I have not "worked for the man": http://lazaridis.com/resumes/lazaridis.html which would mean that Google would not hire me. [No problem, it's their lost.] [...] >>Prove yourself right. > > Ok. That's a bit harder. I suppose we agree that if we have an > intelligent program that is more intelligent than a human and have this > program design an even more intelligent program than things start to > accelerate pretty fast? ok > Now the combination of a programmer with a tool (program) that can be > used to make a better tool. This gives a better human-machine > combination, which then can be used to further improve the combination. => high evolutive system http://lazaridis.com/core/system/evolution.html > I don't think I have completely proven my point now, but since the > danger is very real and big, coming close is already reason enough to > watch this carefully. Why hasn't it happened yet with lisp? I don't > know, http://lazaridis.com/core/eval/lisp.html > why didn't the world get destroyed by all out atomic warfare? > Couldn't it have happened? Of course. But we should focus on that it don't happen in future. > If we create AI why would AI keep us around if we ourselves won't even > hire people that do not comply to absurdly specific preconditions? > Don't we let our poor people starve in the undeveloped countries or > even in our own cities? If we want to prove we belong to the next world > we should start now. Open work communities where everyone can start > working and get paid. The same thing as open source code or usenet but > now with money for everyone. Very nice thoughts - but just thoughts. You should act. As a first step, you should have your thoughts collected on a website, thus you can point to them. And then comes the difficult thing: Transforming thoughts to real-life actions. I'll contact you via email, thus this thread remains 'clean'. > Anton > > 'sorry, I don't want to start a flamewar, but I really believe what I > wrote here' . -- http://lazaridis.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list