Except that isn't what happened. So you're both wrong and stupid.

Because the whole process is stupid. If the company really wants to keep/hire a specific person, they shouldn't have to jump through hoops to do so. But if the only way to keep that person legally hired is to abuse a stupid system already in place, then so be it.

If H1B were really about skilled foreigners filling gaps that can't be filled otherwise, their salaries would be high relative to US citizens.

In a free market, your salary is proportional to how hard it is to replace you:

Push buttons like a trained seal? Peanuts.

Know where to place the the thousand dollar chalk mark? Mid six figures easy.

So what do H1Bs at Microsoft make?

If these links
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F%3Fq%3Dh1b%2B...
are to be believed, kinda average for a software engineer. Maybe even a little low. Boston area under 160k.

Not the stereotypical monkey pushing a button, but not exactly top flight talent either.

Is it just me or is a doctor who can't figure out how to turn off an audio setting scary? What happens if his shoe becomes untied on the way to the operating theater? Does he call tech support?

That might be true, except everyone who has been paying attention knows that all they have to do is buy enough Trumpcoins and the problem will dry up and blow away without fanfare.

Or we could point to the confounding factors they obviously did not address in the study, say "this study is trash no one should ever refer to or even read" and move on. You don't necessarily need a new study to invalidate a study, and this is one of those cases where you don't.

It's too bad you don't know dick about luddites.

"Leaving aside the fact that you don't know the difference between an LLM and a frontier AI model"

One thing is a subset of the other. That was a weird attempt, and it failed.

Stupidly small sample size.

AI agents do not inherently have a gender. Forcing them to pretend to have a gender is both stupid and useless. Stop genderizing things that will never have a gender.

I'm not sure when they did the actual work vs how long it took them to finish the write-up and get published, however, I noticed the model they used was gpt-4-1106-preview. A preview version GPT-4 Turbo. From 3 years ago. For one, I would never base my research on a preview of something that hasn't been finished or finalized even if the preview model is released to the general public. It's a build for testing, not production or research. Secondly, they only offered one male and one female option. The outcomes do not and cannot equate to a broader gender preferences/biases. Maybe their default female settings were subtly more annoying to look at or listen to than the male's. We don't know because the participants only had a binary choice between the genders. Overall, there are a lot of factors that they are not controlling for and are otherwise making assumptions. Personally, I looked at the picture of the two gendered agents and I thought they both looked awful, but the women looked worse - her face looked bad and clothes didn't even slightly match, which I thought was weird, I know what Reallusion can produce and these character models just look awful.

So, overall, I call this study a complete fail. Redo it with better tools, better controls, and someone that actually knows how to do character design.

We didn't used to carry telescreens in our pockets, so that's different.

Before streaming it wasn't feasible to deliver different media to different viewers, either. They all got the same things from the same channels.

TBF the stupid Nazis have been around. They were just a little quieter most of the time, except when they were burning a cross, or dragging someone behind a pickup.

Maybe they can get compilers for some more architectures first

Crack open a history book, start with the 1947 Shubaki family assassination by Zionist paramilitary. And then work your way forward through the back and forth reprisals, the UN Partition Plan for Palestine, and the 1947-1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine.

Once you're caught up, reread your diatribe on Hamas. It is okay to be naive and have myoptic opinions initially, as long as you can also grow and learn.

Amazon has peaked, they have fully saturated multiple markets. They are not going to add any more customers in the US. This cannot be considered a growth industry anymore.

It all depends on who you are optimizing for.

• Parents with kids would do better on standard time, because they have to take their kids to school before work.
• Everyone else with a 9-to-5 job may do better on DST, assuming a short commute distance, because sunrise at 7:20 instead of 8:20 just adds useless time before the morning commute, while sundown at 5:53 means driving home before dark.

There is no one correct answer, because which one fits your circadian rhythms better depends entirely on what time you wake up.