> SOTA models are already capable of outperforming any human on earth in a dizzying array of ways, especially when you consider scale.
So why are so many people still employed as e.g. software engineers? People aren’t prompting the models correctly? They’re only asking 10 times instead of 20? They’re holding it wrong?
A developer is much more likely to be able to fix their computer and/or restore from a backup than a typical user is. A significant problem is cascading failures, where one bozo installing malware either creates a business problem (e.g. allowing someone to steal a bunch of money) or is able to disable a bunch of other computers on the same network. It is not that common for macOS to be implicated in these sorts of issues. I know people have been saying for a long time that it’s theoretically possible but it really doesn’t seem that common in practice.
I think if someone wants to criticize Microsoft after experiencing their buggy products for 20 years straight, that is not “baseless,” although I accept that taking responsibility for literally anything our products do goes against the core values of our profession.
> > The Windows ecosystem typically deployed in corporate PCs or workstations is often insecure, slow, and poorly implemented
> Yes, but that's not because of Windows itself
Come on. There’s a reason Windows users all want to install crappy security products: they’ve been routinely having their files encrypted and held for ransom for the last decade.
Yes, the original Parkinson’s Law paper contains an equation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law
> The growth was presented mathematically with the formula x = (2k^m + P)/n, in which k was the number of officials wanting subordinates, m was the hours they spent writing minutes to each other.
(check the original paper for details since this obviously doesn’t explain what n is)
I cited a government website showing that the population is off by over 200,000 people. I don’t know if you’ve ever lived in New York, but it’s full of world-class bullshitters, so much of what you hear about New York is bullshit. Bill de Blasio claimed there were 2 million people standing in Times Square for New Year’s. How in the world could that possibly be true?
Google’s currently helping to perpetuate the myth that New York is a growing city and its population is at an all-time high of 8.623 million. In reality, it’s a dying city, and the current best estimate is 8,398,748; every bureau except Staten Island is losing population. People are fleeing New York (both the city and upstate) due to high taxes, crumbling infrastructure, bad weather, and a generally poor standard of living.