Oddbean new post about login | logout @c721880c I'm actually thinking about engineering work and medical - both fields that are growing a lot. The world as a whole is shifting towards more people being employed to work on technology, and technology is very often not safe while you're in the process of building it.
@c721880c To be fair, blue collar work is becoming increasingly safe so it is a little silly for people in such fields to be as cautious as people working on people's bodies or people working with the unsafe bits of technology.
@Christmassy Merry Dude @c721880c biomedical engineering
@Operation Wetback 🇺🇸 @c721880c Biomedical engineering is weirdly pretty safe! Lots of it is concerned with making sense of complex signals. There's some weight to it, but it is not nearly as rough as industrial settings.
@Christmassy Merry Dude @Operation Wetback 🇺🇸 have you two tried kissing
@c721880c @Operation Wetback 🇺🇸 I am sorry to say but I have not engaged in premarital kissing. :smug1:
@Christmassy Merry Dude @Operation Wetback 🇺🇸 so you're both control freaks then
@Christmassy Merry Dude @Operation Wetback 🇺🇸 how about you control this into some DMs. what do i know? i'm just a guy on the internet. talk.
@c721880c @Operation Wetback 🇺🇸 I'm not going to speak for my bro here, but I've worked with people who have a history of working with things that just fucking kill people if you fuck up. Lots of them have that sort of behavior bleed into their social lives, and I'm absolutely not going to tell them to loosen up because I don't want them fucking up with a laser and having their eyes go out.
@Christmassy Merry Dude @c721880c @Operation Wetback 🇺🇸 I’ve sometimes dreamed of being a pilot or air traffic controller, but I know that having lives depend on my mental processing would turn me into a neurotic wreck It’s not just hardware either. We live in a world where you can submit 100 resumes and have 95 of them be thrown out because the janky ML screening app used by their HR doesn’t like your word choice. We live in a world where your ability to procure shelter depends on a lifetime history of making pointless purchases so that the credit system knows you exist, like a rain dance to the gods. Plenty of people have 100,000s of swipes on dating apps, never understanding that they’re being rejected because of a metagame that is tilted against them. Why are humans “irrational” for becoming neurotic in this setting? Young people are the ones who need to carve out an increasing slice of the pie in order to survive. In a world of digital signalling, neuroticism (a.k.a. optimization) is how you earn your place at the front of the bread line
