Sure, you don't have to use cocaine, but all of your students are using cocaine. They'd probably be more engaged if you were a bit more culturally sensitive and also used cocaine.
@dabeaz if you're not experimenting with cocaine to increase your productivity, you'll be left behind!

@kajord @dabeaz

Cocaine use is unavoidable. Can't go back. People opposing cocaine use are just like those who opposed Cacao back then. They just don't want to adapt. Times change! Everybody uses Cocaine now.

@kajord @dabeaz

Of course we'll provide training how to use Cocaine properly.

@kajord @dabeaz

The competition will overtake us if we don't use Cocaine. Or China.

Also it's much cheaper to have 10 Engineers on Cocaine and pay their Cocaine, instead of having 100 under-cocainated Engineers.

@kajord @dabeaz

And we want to have Cocaine re-scheduled. Cocaine is system-critical. The state should not interfere with business!

@glitzersachen @kajord @dabeaz People say cocaine doesn't actually make you a genius, but they're just talking about what cocaine could do six months ago. It's much more effective now.
@dabeaz lol is this a satyrical AI euphemism?
@ham_sando @dabeaz
euphemism, allusion, reductio-ad-absurdem, analogy, allegory, call it what you will; it slaps!

@dabeaz

Hey now, at least cocaine makes you feel good and has some occasional medical uses.

@dabeaz Hm, what happens when the dealers jack up the prices?
Cocaine's A Hell Of A Drug | Chappelle's Show

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@dabeaz oh yeah bump-coding is the new thing, just...do a bump and then watch your productivity go through the roof!

@mxchara @dabeaz That's actually a pretty accurate description of the software industry in the 80s.

Ummm... or so I read in a book.

@dabeaz Yeah but I don't want to use cocaine because I'd just be funneling money to a few central druglord kingpins. And I'd be encouraging a society where everyone would be dependent on it and couldn't function without it any more.

Wait, are we still being literal or is this an analogy?

@dabeaz psa - if you're over 45 please consult your doctor

@brotherpsyche @dabeaz

Before consuming Cocaine? Are you joking? Where would be the fun?

@dabeaz
Like it or not, cocaine is here to stay.
@dabeaz this for meat eating.