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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Throw marketing and HR majors in there with business majors as the triumvirate of just literally evil and useless people, and I'm on board.

I say this as a person with an Econ degree, and another Poli Sci degree, that I got simultaneously.

We are not all evil, in fact most of us fucking despise business majors, as business is what you switch your Econ major to if you're too stupid to actually understand advanced math, modelling, statistical analysis, as well as actual long term business strategy, and usually at least some coding proficiency in something like R or at least Python libs geared toward data crunching.

But somehow these idiot assholes end up being our bosses and we usually end up being their subordinate data analysts of some kind, basically because they master the arcane power of corpospeak, aka, professional gaslighting.

Likewise, accountants, actuaries?

Those are actual real degrees, you have to memorize an utterly astounding amount of essentially arbitrary laws and regulations, and if you go full actuary, some of the most complex statistics on earth, in some cases literally more complex and mind bending than what many theoretical physicists have to learn.

Anyway, most data oriented nerds are at least mildly autistic and realize they are generally not so good with people skills, nor the visually artistic kind of creativity... but we are generally self-aware of this, and realize that other people with other kinds of intelligences are needed if we want our data and analysis to actually be listened to.

Finally: HR and Marketing majors are all narcissistic sociopaths who are also too stupid to complete their psychology degrees, which they really only ever pursued to become more skilled sociopaths.

... Uh there, oops, I may have just written at least part of OP's essay.

EDIT: Ok, apparently this may be worth clarifying due to the presence of some ChatGPT diarrhea in this thread, but uh, the above words were all produced spontaneously by an all natural, organic, genuine human being, in an astoundingly more energy efficient and non exploitative manner, that didn't require to violate the privacy, consent, and also basically IP rights of every human that has ever existed.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Shocking that someone with a major that requires lots of writing would have similarities with model that simply copies the writing style with the largest sample size.

Your essay needs more Queen. "...most data oriented nerds are at least mildly autistic" might be a bit of a strong statement but they're at the very least more socially aligned than the rest of the populace.

E: inclusivity

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh no, I failed a purity test by not being inclusive enough, but also it simultaneously was not edgy nor controversial enough at the same time!

I am autistic. I am speaking both from personal experience and also personally knowing a bunch of other autists I went to university with.

So uh, misfire on the inclusivity purity test there, unless you're gonna call me a self hating autist, in which case, ok lol.

You're really gonna tell the autistic guy that he sounds like a robot, a computer model of text generation, you know kind of a massively rude thing to do to an autist, who gets to hear that dehumanizing shit their whole life... you're gonna tell me that and then also critique me for not being inclusive enough, to autistic people.

Amazing.

This doesn't 'need' Queen, it is meant to be my authentic personal opinion, I do not identify as or with Queen, or use Queen mannerisms or phrasings. Took me a long time to learn that anyone that demands I mask for them isn't someone worth much of my time.

Jumping from doing ... some incredibly vague, unspecified, but nonetheless structural writing critique... directly into a totally subjective, personal preferences critique of the content of the writing, seemingly without even realizing you've done this...

Pretty much means you either aren't well versed in English, or you're intentionally conflating the two in bad faith.

I dare you to find any ChatGPT or similar LLM that naturally outputs written content that simply has as many ... as I arguably overuse, consistently writes compound sentences with as many clauses as I use routinely, not to mention suggests intonation the way I do with bold italics.

Uh, um, in conclusion, in this essay I have shown that you have no clue what you're talking about.

EDIT: Oh no, did HR send you?

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My first statement was sarcasm. If you learned to write in university you would learn to write in an academic style. Since most people write more in university than the rest of their career there's simply more writing with that style available. Since that's all available through journals or more insidious sources it's likely training fodder for AIs. Therefore someone's writing being misinterpreted for AI likely just means they've used some academic style. I only commented on it because you brought it up in your first comment. I believe I'm in agreement with your original sentiment that it's a silly notion(?)

The "E:" means "edit" since I edited my post to change the wording from worse language to something i felt was more appropriate.

The "needs more Queen" refers how OP uses the members of the band as examples to make their point. I'm intending to contrast that with your write-up which does not share a similar pop-culture example approach but hinges instead on your personal experience. You said your comment could be a good start to the essay requested in the replies in the image. That is what i was meaning to respond to with this critique. I believe the replies in the image wanted more pop-culture based references.

None of it's a purity test and the last part is just my opinion.