That isn't their goal. Their entire reason for existing is to protect the company. The company pays them, they do what the company wants.

When HR helps an employee, it's because the employee's situation has become a threat to the company. If you can find a way to phrase your problem in those terms, then HR will resolve your problem. Otherwise they'll try to make it go away (which might mean making you go away).

You are special person.

But imagine if everyone were like you. No one would ever use paragraphs.

I've thought about it, and I don't think your writing is boring. That is, you don't have a problem with writing technique. In particular, your writing is clear and I understand it.

There's a saying, "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, it is a fire to be kindled." I think attempting to fill vessels instead of start a fire makes a good impression of being boring. So better to focus on kindling fires and watch the results in your students bloom like fireworks.

> "Good enough" is exactly the reason that AI is upending the world of white collar work. It might not replace a skilled and experienced employee, but it's good enough.

I don't necessarily have a problem with that. The problem is, skilled workers only become skilled after being inexperienced for a while and gaining experience. If you cut junior, unskilled workers from the job market, you won't have skilled workers in a few years.

In other words, company that adopt AI to avoid paying unskilled labor are shooting themselves in the foot.

What mindset has to change? Your comments are too vague.

They were definitely worried that technology would take jobs.

Whether you like AI or not, if your profession is about to be obsoleted by AI, AI Is factually bad for you.

Beyond that, it's up to you to decide if it's worth paying a talented human writer to report on local events in a local rag. Most of those newspapers are strictly utilitarian and simply inform the locals of what's happening in their communities. I've never seen any of them dabble in gonzo.

And well, journalism is like football: most professional footballers play in minor leagues and don't earn much, and only a vanishingly small minority earns top dollar playing incredible matches watched by millions.

High-flying journalists writing for classy newspapers will most certainly keep writing their own stuff. But the mundane will probably be taken over by AI because mediocre is good enough for the money.

I think the key is "productivity growth," not productivity. People were still moving in from the farms in 1948.

There is no doubt that is true. In some cases, AI -10x their productivity, too. (How productive they were beforehand is left as an exercise to the reader).

Why are you making less than a senior webdev based in India?

Apparently (if the summary is correct) they could give them LSD as a control group.

That is way too vague. Not everything in society is bad, on average it is probably good.

So I will tell you a specific thing in society that causes depression: sometimes managers think that if you are happy, you are not working hard. They have no competence or ability to recognize if their underlings are doing good work, so they use the heuristic that if you are happy, you are not working hard. Obviously as a heuristic it's poor.

Then these managers start treating everyone like their underlings, including their kids. Then the kids grow up and don't know why they are unhappy, but soon start treating their friends the same way. If their friends are happy, then something is wrong; so they try to fix it.

Nowdays people are getting MRIs even without symptoms, just for a checkup. https://prenuvo.com/

The trouble is the reporting in Ars Technica. Here is the paper. Here is what a tear looks like in the rotator cuff. Some of the people had tendinitis, which is (obviously) less serious than a torn tendon. By "MRI abnormality" they mean most people had a torn tendon. By "problem" they meant symptomatic (pain, severely limited mobility). Surgery might make some of these problems worse, since you are literally cutting the person in surgery.

Weirdly though, DMT is somewhat more likely to make you see aliens. Ayahuasca is much more likely to feel the presence of the holy mother, or see rainbow DNA, or just vomit.