@trochee@dair-community.social
Post #2089222
2026-05-02 01:41 UTC
My team of linguists is lamenting the screwed up decisions of our entire industry
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> so many [people on our team] know so much about so many things
> [But why they gotta] make it so weird for hiring linguists
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So I gave a little pep(?) talk:
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I really *do* think these are related
Linguistics people — all of you — are just amazingly well prepared for this LLM dystopia that we are all living into
We're the Mad Max(in)es of this particular epistemic hellscape
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@trochee@dair-community.social 2026-05-02 01:43
We poke & pry & pun our way around and through all the human communication and a fair amount of the non human too (and the non communication). We treat double-entendres like the taco truck down the street treats spicy peppers — why wouldn't you expect it, and I'd be disappointed without it — and are the first ones to catch on when we're being lied to by omission or misdirection It's gotta be pretty scary for a normie to interview someone like [Marie]! (2/2) (names changed to avoid trouble)