![]() ![]() It's the same "AIs are hilariously bad at their jobs" joke that we've seen before, told in a confusing way, and with the additional punchline of what I think is supposed to be something along the lines of "white collar workers are weird, random, and/or stupid", which just isn't very nice. ![]() Just as randomly, the guy who applied to be a physicist was either desperate or deluded enough to accept a job mopping floors instead, even after finding out that the job wasn't what he thought it was. I don't know how it would be possible to write a job description that could be easily interpreted as both roles, but apparently Cubetown found a way. They're so bad that they somehow managed to convey "you will clean toilets and empty garbage cans" as "you will be at the forefront of quantum technological development". So am I reading this entirely wrong? And if so, what is the correct interpretation of this wannabe joke?I *think* that the joke is supposed to be that Cubetown is really, REALLY bad at writing job descriptions and explaining themselves in interviews. Thank you, benevolent quirky white millionaires solving our problems for us on a whim whatever would we do without you! Bet it means 'We contact random smart people and fund them to work on whatever they want until either the funding/grants run out, or a saleable product gets made as a side effect.' Which, tbh, is not even that weird, there are a nonzero number of real world companies that don't make money, have no foreseeable plan to make money, and operate almost entirely off of convincing funding providers that what they're working on will at some point make All The Money (the comic already touched on this for a joke once during the 'Get May a new body' sequence, with the visionary robotics company that isn't predicted to have actual positive cash flow for another five years.)So in other words when some smart-ass on Reddit asks 'how does any of this get paid for?' there's a built in answer of "They just do because having quirky millionaires anonymously donating money solves everything". ![]() pretty sure Claire was about to ask just what 'holistic research' means. What do you mean we don't know what Cubetown does? They do 'Holistic Research'! It's on the website and everything! Don't ask questions, just give them money >.>
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