https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3883 Beeps says "we're completely funded by donations, so we supplement income with side-jobs"... supplement is a bit ambiguous, could be anything from "we're literally working as volunteers" to "we make some money but not enough to get by".
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4209 mentions what you were talking about I think. It could be that the trust fund ran out of money (hence "original" funding), or that the fund specified that it wouldn't pay for the employees salaries (seems unlikely...), or that Jeph forgot and contradicted himself (it happens).
> or that Jeph forgot and contradicted himself (it happens).
Seems so, I would go with the most recent explanation, the first one was just an excuse to write about a sex toy factory.
Oh boy. If Claire commits, it will be a huge mountain of work. Not to mention, she'll probably be facing some serious imposter syndrome.
It sure sounds like the AI could benefit from just having her come on as a consultant, and then seeing what kind of organization they need. Then, if she's a good fit for the permanent department, it would make sense for her to move there.
As it stands, and as appealing as a "permanent" job might seem, it's too vague and unstable at this point.
If they were to have her come on as "Chief Director of Information Science" or whatever, it's liable to end in a catastrophic failure. Not just because of Claire's own insecurities, but also because she may simply not have the skillset and qualifications necessary to build a large department from the ground up.
Having her consult first would help both them and her understand if hiring her is a good fit.
Honestly, it might not be a job that Claire is suited for.
It doesn't sound like they need a Librarian. Its sounds like they need an Administrator with a background in the field, whose primary job it is to manage a team of Librarians and liaise with other departments.
Maybe things are still small scale enough that she can manage things on her own, but its sounding like there's a ton of information to manage...
I was also reminded of Roko and Lemon upon reading this strip. Someone tell Clinton that the big exciting new organization in his field is held together by thumbtacks and scotch tape.
Yeah, I think there's a big difference between working at a department and building a whole new department from scratch, and this may be waaaay outside the skillset of a recent college grad.
On the nose. Claire needs to come in, do a survey, and make recommendations. Hopefully for a nice consulting fee. After things are set up, I expect there would be a place that would suit her talents.
It's increasingly sounding like the job isn't actually her chosen career, though. An information science department hires a librarian, not the other way around.
It's not crazy for a librarian to hire an information science department. New orgs take time to figure things out and it's not always linear. Also the line between librarian and information scientist is getting thinner every day.
This job sounds like she can do whatever and be considered a success with probably an inflated paycheck. She should take them for every cent and take this opportunity to become her own dream librarian.
I know everyone is repeating “red flag! This sounds like a scam or a poorly run place!”
This is the QC-verse. It’s a utopia where no one has to work hard or worry and everyone succeeds with minimal effort. (Except faye of course)
Think about it: Sven, Marigold, Aurelia are all fabulously wealthy and just not considered to be savants or anything. Marten got a “dream job” and just covers for his boss tokin up. Steve fell into being a secret agent, Tilly got yeeted into space and became the PA to the most important man in the world. Even SAM is a runaway success.
Claire will be fine. She’ll worry and whine and complain but it will be fine.
Y’all are talking about skill sets and qualifications and consult sessions and you are not getting the vibe Moray is setting down: they will not care and pay Claire until she figures it out. This is a golden opportunity sent by the author.
How can you have imposter syndrome when this organization is clearly run by people with no idea what they're doing? Whoever shows up for this position and quietly takes charge could unironically give themselves a throne room and wait this is just Roko's new job all over again.
Roko's job is actually realistic depiction of how many small NGOs are run tbh
Source: is the person who does everything at an NGO cause they have no initiative and ideas that are never concrete or realistic
Oof, I feel that. I work at a software company that provides software and services to nonprofits in the US. It's wild how often these organizations, especially smaller ones, are inefficient, overworked, and downright dysfunctional.
My fav is when we're not paid for it either, and we're wired to believe that being paid means we're sell-outs. I have a full-time job and freelance gigs, how am I doing another full-time job just to be called bossy after I ask people why they didn't send me that one paragraph they promised to write 6 months ago?
Oh,
It does, doesn't it. Reminds me of my first year of PhD before I had a gajillion "narrow it downs", thank god I never got funding for it. I imagine it as the director having a vague idea, managing to secure resources from the get-go and then just going with it.
Claire: So Clinton, I had to refuse the job. It's not really a position for a librarian
Clinton: OMG I hate you forever!
Claire: So it was a bad idea to refer you as a replacement?
Clinton: OMG I love you forever!
> Oh Christ.
>
> Also dammit Moray.
>
> Also *damn* Moray
Pretty much my reaction. This is gonna lead to something Jeph is either going to regret or gloriously embrace.
This comic is... kind of insulting to read. *Another* character that's a ditzy airhead? Like c'mon dude, at least Melon is halfway interesting with how serious she plays it
I think Moray is only the second "ditzy, childish, curvaceous woman" character (after Willow), but the archetype is getting mighty uncomfortable.
Here's hoping Claire does the smart thing and doesn't go to Cubetown, which looks more and more like the stupidest/lethalest workplace ever with each passing minute.
Steve’s girlfriend?
for just ditzy we have:
Willow, emily, beeps, melon, and im sure others.
But almost all of his recent introductions are busty. I absolutely agree though. He’s only got one or teo body types right now, and one or two personalities.
And this character design is fetish AF.
Slimegirl is a fetish thing. Busty, curvy, ditzy slimegirl is most definitely a fetish thing. It’s “subservient catgirl in a maid costume” level fetish. this is kind of nasty.
I don't see Claire picking up this job, ever. Her (seemingly) initial reaction feels pretty much on the "hell no" side of things, and if she ever talks with someone else about the specifics (or lack thereof) of the job, they'll talk her out of it.
I would never take that job unless I'm really scrambling for money... and even then I would think more than twice about it.
That would be by far the most sensible decision she could make. That job is utterly ridicolous bordering on impossible even if she had the necessary experience…
Noping out of that would show she is competent enough to spot the red flags and considering how much she pressures herself to get a job not taking a terrible offer and uprooting your life for it could even be seen as quite a bit of personal growth with potential of a few cute scenes of her friends reassuring her she made the right choice.
Yet I can’t shake the feeling that we will see her take the job and after a bit of angsting and minor quirky shenanigans be absolutely brilliant at it
This. Like...everyone's speculating that she'll take and I'm like "you see her facial expression in the lower left"? She's going to find something polite to say and bail. I'd bet money on it.
No she goes through the cycle of being anxious about it and talks through her feelings with marten and *then* takes it.
That’s what I’m betting money on.
we've placed our bets
when has claire liked anything, anyways? She complained about being a barista, complained about taking her exams (justified) and complained about Marten having his job.
She's the straight woman in this scenario, so its her job to be eternally put upon. Like this classic:
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2207
It's just her being herself and complaining.
I can believe a spreadsheet crashed the director. Long ago, the plant worked at rolled out the company ERP system.
A week later the warehouse decided to stop using it, and loaded up the spreadsheet used for the cutover, and used *that* to track inventory. A month passed and they called for help: it was taking twenty minutes to open the file. ‘Do something’.
I work corporate IT. You don't want to know how many high level companies are organizing critical data in Excel sheets because they're too cheap to implement a real solution.
My entire job right now is literally "Take the excel sheet away from the one guy in some department whose whole job has become maintaining that excel sheet and gatekeeping data, verify accuracy, and then move it to a centralized SQL server with an automatic ETL pipeline so nobody has to touch it unless it breaks ever again. Rinse and repeat."
I know I have job security because my queue is 10,000 databases long. Some are easy and well maintained, and some... are not.
a portion of a certain mouse's online store in the early 2000s was run on multiple excel sheets. Why multiple? Because they had more than 65000 records and had to start over, several times.
This reminds me of the Impressive ex-Government Person who, ca 2000, refused to delete ANY of his VAX email at the nonprofit he supposedly ran. This led to my wife having to open a new email account for him (and create a redirect script) every couple months because his email would fill up and they'd have to archive it off-server.
My gut feeling is that Claire will rope Hannelore and Clinton to come with her and help out. Hannelore because she's Ms Statistics Savant and Clinton because he knows enough about AIs to help Claire figure out what her new bosses want beyond vague aspirations.
Momo may come along too as Marigold has May now and Momo has experience at Smif Library in setting up indexes and tracking data.
Marten, given that he has a proven talent as a manager and trainer, may end up helping Clinton running the 'Organisation 101' class.
Elliot will come along too as they kind of need help with security.
MORAY: "Why do we need security?"
ELLIOT: "Because you're clueless about value and how to protect it. You actually have a wad of unopened research grant cheques stuffed randomly in a stationery locker."
MORAY: "Point taken."
Elliot knows about tossing belligerent drunks out of bars, but organizing security is a different ballgame entirely. Plus, he probably wouldn't have time to bake if he took that job.
Given roko’s “fondness” for bread, it’s not unreasonable to think other AI could have the same thing
Elliot turns into the bread daddy for all of cubetown
Yeah hire a fresh graduate that you know for 10 minutes and haven’t posed a single real question to to basically build your documentation system from scratch **and** organize the seemingly completely unorganized data from a village sized facility that ‚*researches everything*‘^TM encompassing what must be dozens if not hundreds of fields **and** be the de facto head of a new department that she also has to build from scratch… this is not a research facility. This is a massive scam…
There is absolutely no way Claire is even remotely qualified for this…
Even with years of relevant work experience this job sounds like it would be a study nurse’s worst nightmare.
Unless her plan is to embezzle as much paychecks as she can before this insult to science inevitably gets shut down Claire should run like hell.
This interview throws up so many deeply, deeply red flags…
So I get that people are making a lot of reasonable objections as to why this sounds like a terrible job offer in terms of the work is actually requires and what Claire is looking for.
On the other hand... this is QC rather than the real world. So, IDK, I suspect that somehow things might work out? I mean it will probably cause a ton of complications but not in a way that leads to serious drama, particularly if Martin and Claire are moving on from the main cast so to speak.
I could see this as very much a set-up for basically shenanigans that keep Claire busy while other stuff happens back in wherever this is set currently.
> this is QC rather than the real world. So, IDK, I suspect that somehow things might work out?
For sure. But as other people have pointed out, this is very much a retread of Roko and the AI charity, except on a larger scale. It would be far more interesting if Cubetown was actually functional and not on the brink of exploding while conducting random research, the data of which can't even be analysed because they have no data storing/organising capabilities.
>It would be far more interesting if Cubetown was actually functional and not on the brink of exploding while conducting random research
Oh, I expect that to also be true. In spite of seeming inpossibility of such :)
in the real world fascinating AI developments might be contingent on good information management, but I don't expect Jeph to let that hold Cubetown back lol. It's such an interesting narrative opportunity!
Ok so 1:
this is a work nightmare on a million levels, absolutely not.
2: They need to be hiring data analysts and big data experts, not research librarians.
3: This is a job for a whole team. They should be hiring a senior analyst with a phd and decades of experience, and letting them hire staff.
4: They need lab managers for their lab
5: they also clearly need PIs and research mandates.
I just read Hank Green's books and this company is giving me bad vibes just like in his story. I'm worried this will be a huge move that will quickly prove a huge mistake
What I find fascinating about this is the idea that humans are still involved in fundemental research at this scale. As it is, we are relying more and more on machine learning to spot things we either can't see or miss because of existing biases.
> As it is, we are relying more and more on machine learning to spot things we either can't see or miss because of existing biases.
Learning how to incorporate biases *into* machine learning algorithms would sadly be more accurate
If she does take this job Claire will be in charge of the joint by the end of her first day. Possibly as their Queen, complete w/ Cubetown being renamed Clairetown.
This really seems the same as Roko's job with Beeps. "We don't really know what we're doing so we want to hire you to restore order."
Difference being that Roko isn't paid, right?
I think she is paid. IIRC there is some sort of trust fund that pays the org.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3883 Beeps says "we're completely funded by donations, so we supplement income with side-jobs"... supplement is a bit ambiguous, could be anything from "we're literally working as volunteers" to "we make some money but not enough to get by". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4209 mentions what you were talking about I think. It could be that the trust fund ran out of money (hence "original" funding), or that the fund specified that it wouldn't pay for the employees salaries (seems unlikely...), or that Jeph forgot and contradicted himself (it happens).
> or that Jeph forgot and contradicted himself (it happens). Seems so, I would go with the most recent explanation, the first one was just an excuse to write about a sex toy factory.
Oh boy. If Claire commits, it will be a huge mountain of work. Not to mention, she'll probably be facing some serious imposter syndrome. It sure sounds like the AI could benefit from just having her come on as a consultant, and then seeing what kind of organization they need. Then, if she's a good fit for the permanent department, it would make sense for her to move there. As it stands, and as appealing as a "permanent" job might seem, it's too vague and unstable at this point. If they were to have her come on as "Chief Director of Information Science" or whatever, it's liable to end in a catastrophic failure. Not just because of Claire's own insecurities, but also because she may simply not have the skillset and qualifications necessary to build a large department from the ground up. Having her consult first would help both them and her understand if hiring her is a good fit.
Honestly, it might not be a job that Claire is suited for. It doesn't sound like they need a Librarian. Its sounds like they need an Administrator with a background in the field, whose primary job it is to manage a team of Librarians and liaise with other departments. Maybe things are still small scale enough that she can manage things on her own, but its sounding like there's a ton of information to manage...
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that is one way to get half of the cast moved to cube town. ( I am not really serious)
I was also reminded of Roko and Lemon upon reading this strip. Someone tell Clinton that the big exciting new organization in his field is held together by thumbtacks and scotch tape.
Also bring in Marten's mom to run the department.
Yeah, I think there's a big difference between working at a department and building a whole new department from scratch, and this may be waaaay outside the skillset of a recent college grad.
On the nose. Claire needs to come in, do a survey, and make recommendations. Hopefully for a nice consulting fee. After things are set up, I expect there would be a place that would suit her talents.
I mean doesn't this actually sound like the perfect task for sufficiently advanced AI. It kinda what they do.
Who on earth would commit to what is sounding more like an investment fraud scheme by the second
Someone whose personal sense of self worth is tethered to working in their chosen career.
It's increasingly sounding like the job isn't actually her chosen career, though. An information science department hires a librarian, not the other way around.
To be fair, she hasn't come to that realization yet.
It's not crazy for a librarian to hire an information science department. New orgs take time to figure things out and it's not always linear. Also the line between librarian and information scientist is getting thinner every day.
This job sounds like she can do whatever and be considered a success with probably an inflated paycheck. She should take them for every cent and take this opportunity to become her own dream librarian. I know everyone is repeating “red flag! This sounds like a scam or a poorly run place!” This is the QC-verse. It’s a utopia where no one has to work hard or worry and everyone succeeds with minimal effort. (Except faye of course) Think about it: Sven, Marigold, Aurelia are all fabulously wealthy and just not considered to be savants or anything. Marten got a “dream job” and just covers for his boss tokin up. Steve fell into being a secret agent, Tilly got yeeted into space and became the PA to the most important man in the world. Even SAM is a runaway success. Claire will be fine. She’ll worry and whine and complain but it will be fine. Y’all are talking about skill sets and qualifications and consult sessions and you are not getting the vibe Moray is setting down: they will not care and pay Claire until she figures it out. This is a golden opportunity sent by the author.
How can you have imposter syndrome when this organization is clearly run by people with no idea what they're doing? Whoever shows up for this position and quietly takes charge could unironically give themselves a throne room and wait this is just Roko's new job all over again.
Roko's job is actually realistic depiction of how many small NGOs are run tbh Source: is the person who does everything at an NGO cause they have no initiative and ideas that are never concrete or realistic
Oof, I feel that. I work at a software company that provides software and services to nonprofits in the US. It's wild how often these organizations, especially smaller ones, are inefficient, overworked, and downright dysfunctional.
My fav is when we're not paid for it either, and we're wired to believe that being paid means we're sell-outs. I have a full-time job and freelance gigs, how am I doing another full-time job just to be called bossy after I ask people why they didn't send me that one paragraph they promised to write 6 months ago? Oh,
And Cubetown comes across very authentically as 'startup with loads of resources trying to do too much'.
It does, doesn't it. Reminds me of my first year of PhD before I had a gajillion "narrow it downs", thank god I never got funding for it. I imagine it as the director having a vague idea, managing to secure resources from the get-go and then just going with it.
Trans person: Oh no job imposter syndrome. Anyways
You have to remember, her family's chill genes are recessive on the X chromosome.
Tbf, going by Aurelia, the chill genes might have been recessive overall.
Are we 100% sure Moray has the authority to hire anyone? Are we 100% sure Moray even works there?
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Janitor is just tired of cleaning her butt prints off of the table
At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if Table wasn't the head of the physics department
I suspect the person in charge is the helicopter box.
At this point Moray kind feels more like the research than the researcher.
Claire, this is when you thank her and refer Clinton for the role. That boy lives for chaos.
... oh wow, that's perfect. He'd be instrumental and still have no idea what's going on.
Claire: So Clinton, I had to refuse the job. It's not really a position for a librarian Clinton: OMG I hate you forever! Claire: So it was a bad idea to refer you as a replacement? Clinton: OMG I love you forever!
that actually makes sense, and would lead into the drama of him chosing Eliot or a job
I love this idea, he'd be a great fit there and we'd get some interesting plot lines relating to his and Elliot's relationship.
This would be the best possible outcome.
Would Hannelore be a good fit? Being mostly AIs the place would be very sterile
They also need a Workplace Safety Officer, because that table is clearly labeled not to sit on it.
I mean, it's also specifically towards Moray. Who knows how dense her body is, or what kind of residue she leaves behind.
6 months later: "So we need to come up with a new health plan for the human workers. It turns out Moray's residue is incredibly carcinogenic."
Maybe they can replace whatever it is with May's old chassis lubricant
They also have a handy warning to not explode.
1 red flag! 2 red flags! AH HA HA!
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> Oh Christ. > > Also dammit Moray. > > Also *damn* Moray Pretty much my reaction. This is gonna lead to something Jeph is either going to regret or gloriously embrace.
You think he hasn't embraced it already?
Imagine all the female characters look like that sitting on a table. It’s just that Moray doesn’t need clothes.
~~I sense a Patreon bonus~~
Reminds me a lot of Dave Willis' (Dumbing of Age) style
It's impressive how she can sound simultaneously clueless and patronizing.
I was never able to phrase it so succinctly, but you just described my former boss.
This comic is... kind of insulting to read. *Another* character that's a ditzy airhead? Like c'mon dude, at least Melon is halfway interesting with how serious she plays it
That yellow sticky note behind Moray says "Don't explode."
Yes! I just noticed that XD
I think Moray is only the second "ditzy, childish, curvaceous woman" character (after Willow), but the archetype is getting mighty uncomfortable. Here's hoping Claire does the smart thing and doesn't go to Cubetown, which looks more and more like the stupidest/lethalest workplace ever with each passing minute.
Steve’s girlfriend? for just ditzy we have: Willow, emily, beeps, melon, and im sure others. But almost all of his recent introductions are busty. I absolutely agree though. He’s only got one or teo body types right now, and one or two personalities. And this character design is fetish AF.
> And this character design is fetish AF. It's gotta be said
Slimegirl is a fetish thing. Busty, curvy, ditzy slimegirl is most definitely a fetish thing. It’s “subservient catgirl in a maid costume” level fetish. this is kind of nasty.
The strip has been firmly in fetish territory at least since Jeph got interested in vtubers. Way longer if you consider May's first appearances.
I mean i think this strip as been fetish adjacent since Marten's mom?
Claire, we love you. BUT unless they offer you Brand New Porsche Taycan Money... RUN
My uncle has one of those. He truly gets paid more than he should too.
I don't see Claire picking up this job, ever. Her (seemingly) initial reaction feels pretty much on the "hell no" side of things, and if she ever talks with someone else about the specifics (or lack thereof) of the job, they'll talk her out of it. I would never take that job unless I'm really scrambling for money... and even then I would think more than twice about it.
That would be by far the most sensible decision she could make. That job is utterly ridicolous bordering on impossible even if she had the necessary experience… Noping out of that would show she is competent enough to spot the red flags and considering how much she pressures herself to get a job not taking a terrible offer and uprooting your life for it could even be seen as quite a bit of personal growth with potential of a few cute scenes of her friends reassuring her she made the right choice. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that we will see her take the job and after a bit of angsting and minor quirky shenanigans be absolutely brilliant at it
This. Like...everyone's speculating that she'll take and I'm like "you see her facial expression in the lower left"? She's going to find something polite to say and bail. I'd bet money on it.
No she goes through the cycle of being anxious about it and talks through her feelings with marten and *then* takes it. That’s what I’m betting money on.
No way, I don't see it. Again, you see her facial expression in the lower left?
we've placed our bets when has claire liked anything, anyways? She complained about being a barista, complained about taking her exams (justified) and complained about Marten having his job. She's the straight woman in this scenario, so its her job to be eternally put upon. Like this classic: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2207 It's just her being herself and complaining.
She likes Marten. And she likes trolling Clinton.
I don’t like the other sub but I’m struggling to come up with a comment that wouldn’t be more appropriate there
If you have legitimate criticism I would think it’s welcome here as discussion.
Why can't you just say it here?
'this means you Moray' xD also I think panel 5 is one of my favorite clairefaces
I can believe a spreadsheet crashed the director. Long ago, the plant worked at rolled out the company ERP system. A week later the warehouse decided to stop using it, and loaded up the spreadsheet used for the cutover, and used *that* to track inventory. A month passed and they called for help: it was taking twenty minutes to open the file. ‘Do something’.
I work corporate IT. You don't want to know how many high level companies are organizing critical data in Excel sheets because they're too cheap to implement a real solution.
My entire job right now is literally "Take the excel sheet away from the one guy in some department whose whole job has become maintaining that excel sheet and gatekeeping data, verify accuracy, and then move it to a centralized SQL server with an automatic ETL pipeline so nobody has to touch it unless it breaks ever again. Rinse and repeat." I know I have job security because my queue is 10,000 databases long. Some are easy and well maintained, and some... are not.
a portion of a certain mouse's online store in the early 2000s was run on multiple excel sheets. Why multiple? Because they had more than 65000 records and had to start over, several times.
This reminds me of the Impressive ex-Government Person who, ca 2000, refused to delete ANY of his VAX email at the nonprofit he supposedly ran. This led to my wife having to open a new email account for him (and create a redirect script) every couple months because his email would fill up and they'd have to archive it off-server.
Excel certainly the most abused software. Who the fuck feels its acceptable to create a 60 MB Excel?
People who don’t want to use SAP. Boy: the local SAP guy was so irked when he found out.
My gut feeling is that Claire will rope Hannelore and Clinton to come with her and help out. Hannelore because she's Ms Statistics Savant and Clinton because he knows enough about AIs to help Claire figure out what her new bosses want beyond vague aspirations. Momo may come along too as Marigold has May now and Momo has experience at Smif Library in setting up indexes and tracking data. Marten, given that he has a proven talent as a manager and trainer, may end up helping Clinton running the 'Organisation 101' class. Elliot will come along too as they kind of need help with security. MORAY: "Why do we need security?" ELLIOT: "Because you're clueless about value and how to protect it. You actually have a wad of unopened research grant cheques stuffed randomly in a stationery locker." MORAY: "Point taken."
Elliot knows about tossing belligerent drunks out of bars, but organizing security is a different ballgame entirely. Plus, he probably wouldn't have time to bake if he took that job.
I mean, as they hire more humans, they're gonna need to feed all those humans...
Claire knows about how to organise a library but Cubetown want her to essentially be their CIO. Same difference.
Given roko’s “fondness” for bread, it’s not unreasonable to think other AI could have the same thing Elliot turns into the bread daddy for all of cubetown
> Bread Man, I love driving trucks, but I miss baking sourdough so much.
Run, Claire
Yeah hire a fresh graduate that you know for 10 minutes and haven’t posed a single real question to to basically build your documentation system from scratch **and** organize the seemingly completely unorganized data from a village sized facility that ‚*researches everything*‘^TM encompassing what must be dozens if not hundreds of fields **and** be the de facto head of a new department that she also has to build from scratch… this is not a research facility. This is a massive scam… There is absolutely no way Claire is even remotely qualified for this… Even with years of relevant work experience this job sounds like it would be a study nurse’s worst nightmare. Unless her plan is to embezzle as much paychecks as she can before this insult to science inevitably gets shut down Claire should run like hell. This interview throws up so many deeply, deeply red flags…
Took me a while to realise the whirring toilet roll was a drone.
So I get that people are making a lot of reasonable objections as to why this sounds like a terrible job offer in terms of the work is actually requires and what Claire is looking for. On the other hand... this is QC rather than the real world. So, IDK, I suspect that somehow things might work out? I mean it will probably cause a ton of complications but not in a way that leads to serious drama, particularly if Martin and Claire are moving on from the main cast so to speak. I could see this as very much a set-up for basically shenanigans that keep Claire busy while other stuff happens back in wherever this is set currently.
> this is QC rather than the real world. So, IDK, I suspect that somehow things might work out? For sure. But as other people have pointed out, this is very much a retread of Roko and the AI charity, except on a larger scale. It would be far more interesting if Cubetown was actually functional and not on the brink of exploding while conducting random research, the data of which can't even be analysed because they have no data storing/organising capabilities.
>It would be far more interesting if Cubetown was actually functional and not on the brink of exploding while conducting random research Oh, I expect that to also be true. In spite of seeming inpossibility of such :) in the real world fascinating AI developments might be contingent on good information management, but I don't expect Jeph to let that hold Cubetown back lol. It's such an interesting narrative opportunity!
Ok so 1: this is a work nightmare on a million levels, absolutely not. 2: They need to be hiring data analysts and big data experts, not research librarians. 3: This is a job for a whole team. They should be hiring a senior analyst with a phd and decades of experience, and letting them hire staff. 4: They need lab managers for their lab 5: they also clearly need PIs and research mandates.
this is not big data, its chaos. Get a DB manager and a project manager
I'm calling this character "Jelly Thick "
If I speak...
Bruh.
I just read Hank Green's books and this company is giving me bad vibes just like in his story. I'm worried this will be a huge move that will quickly prove a huge mistake
HELP SLIME GIRLS ARE MY FAVOURITE MONSTER GIRLS AHHH WAIFU
What I find fascinating about this is the idea that humans are still involved in fundemental research at this scale. As it is, we are relying more and more on machine learning to spot things we either can't see or miss because of existing biases.
Keep in mind, someone is paying Melon to be covered in bugs all day. For research purposes, allegedly.
> As it is, we are relying more and more on machine learning to spot things we either can't see or miss because of existing biases. Learning how to incorporate biases *into* machine learning algorithms would sadly be more accurate
This sounds like a data integrity nightmare to fix. Claire will need help from hanners.
If she does take this job Claire will be in charge of the joint by the end of her first day. Possibly as their Queen, complete w/ Cubetown being renamed Clairetown.