Dr. Bob

The title in the post is a tease. It doesn’t actually say anything?

Doing God’s work.

If I’m not going to watch the video why would I click through to read the title? I went and skimmed the wikipedia article instead.

I am saying I am not watching the video. I would prefer a tight paragraph or two about whatever the videographer thinks are the extraordinary circumstances.

One useful function for AI would be to watch YouTube videos and extract any useful information into concise paragraphs. I am looking to be informed, not entertained.

I’m outraged that the article skimped on Mr. Shatner’s other acting accomplishments including the titular cop on T.J. Hooker, and whatever his name was on Boston Legal. That was the lawyer show that wasn’t Ally McBeal. Or L.A. Law.

John Norman has been cranking it in the chat for hours.

I kind of get it, but again nobody cares about the answer, it’s the reasoning process that gets you to an answer.

Like a job interview question of how would you…X. Nobody is going to implement whatever you come up with, They just want to hear you think about it out loud and see how flexible you are if they constrain the problem.

I have designed tests like this as part of my professional role. The first rule of every exercise and simulation is “don’t fight the scenario”. Every scenario has problems and we don’t care. We literally do not care about outcomes. The only important thing is the reasoning process and how the candidate weighs and balances considerations. If they miss some obvious items or fail to take factors into account then they fail.

Eta: consider the trolley problem. At the core it answers the question “are you a utilitarian”. Any answer outside the frame doesn’t address the purpose. I don’t care that you’re a trolley engineer and can fix the brakes or have some harebrained scheme to rescue the people at risk. If you fight the scenario then we can’t do the assessment which is to hear how you wrestle with agency, culpability through in/action, and relative value of human lives.