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Underperforming relative to what? If they're doing their job in good faith and overall making money for the company, is it "underperforming" if they're less productive than 95% of their peers? This notion of underperformance leaves no room for adequate performance.

I am sure there are some people getting laid off who genuinely don't do any work, though not 5% of the company - and certainly not the bottom 5% according to Meta's metrics! A lot of "mid-range" performers probably get by with pure schmoozing and mooching. And in more general sense, I don't think it's okay - either morally or strategically - to lay people off simply because you want to roll the dice on hiring more productive workers. (For a company of Meta's size this doesn't even make sense; clearly this move is about cracking the whip for the remaining 95%.)

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> Below is Zuckeberg’s[sic] internal memo, which CNBC obtained.

  Meta is working on building some of the most important technologies of the world. AI, glasses as the next computing platform and the future of social media.

It's very funny that he included the Ray-Bans here. Maybe it will be the next iPhone, but along with Meta Worlds (or whatever it's called), Zuckerberg simply goes all-in on dumb sci-fi toys. Considering this is pure childish impulse - VR itself didn't make the top 3 in the memo - I wonder if he'll rename the company to Specs Technologies.

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The content of the ad seems a bit on-the-nose given how much of Instagram is devoted to onanistic preening...

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I would like to see this repeated with my highly innovative HARC-HAGI, which is ARC-AGI but it uses hexagons instead of squares. I suspect humans would only make slightly more brain farts on HARC-HAGI than ARC-AGI, but O3 would fail very badly since it almost certainly has been specifically trained on squares.

I am not really trying to downplay O3. But this would be a simple test as to whether O3 is truly "a system capable of adapting to tasks it has never encountered before" versus novel ARC-AGI tasks it hasn't encountered before.

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One of the more depressing things of the AI boom is watching engineers and “atheists” get hoodwinked by mystic gibberish like this blog. There is nothing here but astrology: even Myers-Briggs is more scientific.

I think 30% of atheists bothered to think carefully about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and recognized Pastafarianism as a funny commentary on epistemic uncertainty. The remaining 70% said “heh, stoopid Christians believe in a spaghetti monster!” and took it as confirmation of their tribe’s superiority.

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