throwawayoldie

You're not wrong, but I have one nit to pick: let's not dignify what MBAs do by calling it "leadership". They're barely "management".

I don't love your silly theory. It sounds like you're in denial, trying to cope with the fact that not everyone thinks LLMs are the greatest thing since flush toilets.

It's a different world than it was ten years ago. Among the ways it's different are people are far more skeptical of billionaires, Big Tech, and capitalism generally. They're willing to cut them much less slack. This is one of the few ways that the world of today is better than the world of ten years ago.

And a Fortune 500 company has never done anything stupid.

Quick question: if there is a paid anti-AI movement, where do I send my invoice? May as well not leave money on the table.

Yes he's rich and influential and blah blah blah blah blah and he's also AN ENORMOUS FUCKING DORK with the intellectual depth of a half-empty bottle of salad dressing. For all his money I'd rather be me than him.

Not to put words in the OP's mouth, but I think that was the joke.

BRB got a book I have to lick real quick.

I have a copy of the classic "Joy Of Cooking" in the kitchen. It was a lot cheaper, works perfectly every time, and doesn't get ruined if (when) I spill foodstuffs on it.

As a friend of mine put it, "I don't know if UBI would take people out of the workforce, but it would probably take me out of the workforce."

I think a lot of people simply don't know what to do with themselves when they don't have a job.

I would be perfectly happy without a job. It's the income I'm concerned about.

In 10 years, the management (or "leadership" if you like the taste of boot) responsible for doing the cutting will have moved on to something else, with no consequences for them.

I suspect that for every grandpa who likes telling war stories, there are probably a hundred who get quiet and sullen when the war comes up and have to excuse themselves and go be alone for a while.

Maybe it would help if I describe it as being in the Extremely East Bay. Like, about 3,000 miles east.

It's good. Not that big though. But what there is, is worth seeing.

It's disappointing to see but it feels as if to keep a futuristic theme and to provide almost an "edutainment" environment that a museum feels as though it must implement screens to keep up with the times.

And you just know that in board meetings of plenty of museums, someone is saying "We NeEd To MaKe ThE mUsEuM Ai-NaTiVe."

No, this is complaining that the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has gotten worse over the decades.

Yesterday I used ChatGPT to transform a csv file. Move around a couple of columns, add a few new ones. Very large file.

I'm struggling with trying to understand how using an LLM to do this seemed like a good idea in the first place.

People have a tendency to uncritically take techies' claims as facts.

[Stares aggressively in the direction of gen AI.]

And the more successful of them have probably traded up to cocaine.

preach

What makes the industry run, and has for decades? Adderall. What is Adderall? Amphetamines.

He was talking about the music industry, not tech, but this reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's quotation that the industry was "a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

"There's [a sucker] born every minute." --P. T. Barnum

"And many of them have CS degrees from good universities." --Me

Seems like a feature

If by "feature" you mean "pathway to model collapse" meaning "disappearing up one's own asshole" then yes. And the sooner the better.

That blew my mind. Geology is going to be a wild discipline in the far future.

It may be a huge amount, but in the next few years it's only going to get huger.

Someone let me know when rocks as big as cars are flying _up_ the Dolemites.

There are, you know, journalistic standards, which are considered kinda "journalism 101"!

Pretty sure you meant to use the past tense here: "There _were_ journalistic standards..."

They killed "only" about 350 people combined, but the two fatal crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX in 2018 and 2019 were due to poor quality software:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...