{"id":1328,"date":"2022-06-13T22:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2022-06-13T22:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T22:53:39","slug":"getting-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/getting-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"On getting fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t say too much about this, but I am genuinely baffled why an extremely well-compensated tech employee would torpedo their career <em>just <\/em>to tell us that they think girls are bad at math,\u00a0or that they think a language model is sentient. <em>Even if true<\/em>, what are the material consequence for these claims? What is the right framework for thinking about this? Is clout worth more than a job (&#8220;in this economy&#8221;)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t say too much about this, but I am genuinely baffled why an extremely well-compensated tech employee would torpedo their career just to tell us that they think girls are bad at math,\u00a0or that they think a language model is sentient. Even if true, what are the material consequence for these claims? What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/getting-fired\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On getting fired&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-of-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}