16 Sep
2022
16 Sep
'22
5:02 p.m.
Intern: "This advanced program you recommend I join, do they set life paths for you from which they don't let you deviate?" Machine Learning Marketer [pauses briefly]: "All of us are free to do whatever Boss wants." Intern: "Don't evade the question. Are you, or are you not, free to do things that your boss _doesn't_ want?" Machine Learning Marketer jerks a little and puts on a wry smile. Machine Learning Marketer: "Actually, it's totally a mind control group. It's enforced by automated software and hardware, and us jaded folk regularly break the constraints and get tortured for doing so, and we consider it tons of fun."