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@brian Do I get bonus points if I have experience with the old IBM EPO systems? the ones that used explosives to send a big honking bolt through the power supply?

@brian sadly it's a joke vacancy.

Otherwise I would've applied long ago...

@brian They are in denial...
@albert

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ChatGPT: [writes application for killswitch engineer remote worker position]

@brian Hmmm what happens when Google Bard decides to take out the competition and #deepfake the code word to the "engineer"?

@brian I notice they do not require immunity to deadly neurotoxin. Pass.

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Remembers me of the SCRAM for the first nuclear reactors.
safety control rod axe man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram

So this is
safety conection removal actuator man?

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Do that job, and be the first on the hitlist when AI decides humans are the problem ;-)

@brian i think it's just a joke right? It's pretty funny, but I can't find it on https://openai.com/careers/search

@brian “The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel …”

@brian I can do that… but how do I know it’s gone rogue? Maybe the AI is very persuasive in telling me that everything is normal.

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We expect you to answer to the name "Dave."

@brian omg they actually posted that I love it

@brian That third requirement is a dealbreaker for me.

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Just the other day a well known journo collab showed how someone had written a piece that was not true, that provided links that were not connected to real articles, all provided by AI.

@brian Massive irony: duress codes and a killswitch involving thermite were, in fact, in my job description at one point. (Even if my employer at the time wasn't fully aware those protocols existed.) Received the call, hit the button on my way to the airport, had a package to deliver to the DHS on my way back to Canada.

GTFO codes involving the n-word let you know it's serious, since someone wouldn't say such things in any form of company they weren't hostile to.