FormallyknownasRoko comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 07 December 2010 06:27:11PM 2 points [-]

I dunno, "loathsome" sounds a bit theoretical to me. Can you be specific?

Comment author: CronoDAS 07 December 2010 06:40:00PM *  4 points [-]

One of my brother's co-workers at Goldman Sachs has actively tried to sabotage his work. (Goldman Sachs runs on a highly competitive "up or out" system; you either get promoted or fired, and most people don't get promoted. If my brother lost his job, his coworker would be more likely to keep his.)

Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 07 December 2010 07:36:07PM 2 points [-]

I don't understand: he tried to sabotage his cowerker's work, or his own?

Comment author: sfb 07 December 2010 07:38:17PM 6 points [-]

CronoDAS's Brother's Co-worker tried to sabotage CronoDAS's Brother's work.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 December 2010 09:11:32PM 0 points [-]

"Hamlet, in love with the old man's daughter, the old man thinks."

Comment author: David_Gerard 08 December 2010 01:03:25AM *  2 points [-]

Not without getting political. Fundamentally, I didn't feel good about what I was doing. And I was just a Unix sysadmin.

This was just a job to live, not a job taken on in the furtherance of a larger goal.