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throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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".
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
And a Fortune 500 company has never done anything stupid.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Not to put words in the OP's mouth, but I think that was the joke.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
BRB got a book I have to lick real quick.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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."
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
> 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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Maybe it would help if I describe it as being in the Extremely East Bay. Like, about 3,000 miles east.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
It's good. Not that big though. But what there is, is worth seeing.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
> 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."
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
No, this is complaining that the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has gotten worse over the decades.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
> 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.
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
People have a tendency to uncritically take techies' claims as facts.

[Stares aggressively in the direction of gen AI.]
throwawayoldie
·10 mesi fa·discuss
And the more successful of them have probably traded up to cocaine.