Antonio García Martínez called these updates an insufferable trope.
If anyone ever catches me doing this, you are authorized to mock me mercifully and unfollow.
This isn’t an airport and you aren’t a flight, etc.
One of the most insufferable tropes in tech wagie life.
Excited to announce that I am leaving [company that looked like it was going to make a ton of money 2 years ago] in order to join [company that looks like it's going to make a ton of money now]
Some users praised Noah Smith's move to Anthropic as a solid free-market example while many others mocked the job-switch announcement as an insufferable self-serving trope.
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It’s doubly reprehensible when the companies are competitors.
Technocapitalism fills in for identity, religion, social circle and purpose now…so you’re just turning traitor and going to a rival?
Might as well just say you’re LARPing at it and this is all mostly a charade.
If anyone ever catches me doing this, you are authorized to mock me mercifully and unfollow.
This isn’t an airport and you aren’t a flight, etc.
One of the most insufferable tropes in tech wagie life.
@antoniogm It's useful for recruiting.
If anyone ever catches me doing this, you are authorized to mock me mercifully and unfollow.
This isn’t an airport and you aren’t a flight, etc.
One of the most insufferable tropes in tech wagie life.
@Noahpinion My literal feed rn
@dwr Presumably the recruiting already happened in the full A to B version.
@antoniogm Useful for recruiting the next person.
@Noahpinion
@Noahpinion This sounds like a nihilistic but sustainable existance
@Noahpinion Waiting for one brave soldier to go from AI to NFT's in 2026
@BethlehemAmanda @Noahpinion @JohnJumperSci bro you are getting bodied
@dwr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
@Noahpinion It’s a solid template
@Noahpinion assortative RSI matching
@antoniogm After careful consideration, I've decided to continue exchanging labor for money, just somewhere else
@Noahpinion Interestingly no one is moving to Musk's AI team even though SpaceX's $2.8 trillion valuation was supposedly based on their AI ambitions.
@Noahpinion incentives are at work!
@Noahpinion
@antoniogm Perhaps worse is the "I've left A, stay tuned for what B is" trope
@Noahpinion This is good, actually.
@Noahpinion free markets, baby
@Noahpinion Not a way to live if you ask me, but there's obviously a lot of money in it.
And it's a flex because only the best can do it.