AnonStoleMyPants

maegul , 3 months ago to workreform

Performance reviews are just employers controlling the narrative when employees are underpaid

Right?
If you underperform, brutal negotiations ensue … prove your value or the deal is off.

Buuut, if you’re overperforming, you get gold stickers and praise, and the possibility of a pay bump through a process controlled by the employer …

instead of you telling the employer that they have to prove their value or the deal is off.

Instead over performing then becomes the expectation.

@workreform

AnonStoleMyPants , 3 months ago

instead of you telling the employer that they have to prove their value or the deal is off.

What?

Performance review is from the employers side, obviously.

There is nothing stopping from you to walking into your boss’ office and telling them that you’re not getting paid enough for the work you do. Then either they pay you more or don’t and you find a better job.

jlou , 10 months ago to technology

Longtermism poses a real threat to humanity

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/08/longtermism-threat-humanity

"AI researchers such as Timnit Gebru affirm that longtermism is everywhere in Silicon Valley. The current race to create advanced AI by companies like OpenAI and DeepMind is driven in part by the longtermist ideology. Longtermists believe that if we create a “friendly” AI, it will solve all our problems and usher in a utopia, but if the AI is “misaligned”, it will destroy humanity...."

@technology

AnonStoleMyPants , 10 months ago

Don’t think so personally. The only reason might be that tech billionaires probably think it is more “their thing” than religion or whatever. Hence, quite bad.