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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is correct. Real estate prices don’t mean anything to the vast majority of companies since most of them are not in the real estate business and likely even lease their office spaces. It could have a minor impact to the balance sheet if deemed impaired but it doesn’t amount to something that matters in valuation which cares more about P&L, cash flow, and working capital.

  Business leaders are human, they don’t know what the fuck is going on, or how to “increase shareholder value”. So for lack of better ideas they can just tell employees to go back to the office.

  Basically, if you don’t know how to stop a ship from sinking, you can at least change the curtains on the windows so you look busy on the way down.

  They first, make the decision to go back to the office, second, they tell their team to go find reasons to rationalize the decision. There isn’t a nuanced logic to arriving at the conclusion, they make these calls off-hand on gut feelings. The thinking comes in later from the direct reports trying to fill in the logical gaps, even if the decision wasn’t a logical one to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This comes off as very “Old man yells at clouds”.

  People will watch what they want to watch. It doesn’t matter if you want them to watch something else. He’s free to make non-superhero movies, and people will watch it if they prefer it. You can’t dictate “taste” to people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the current state people can take classes on say Zoom, formulate a question, and then type it into Google, which pulls up an LLM-generated search result from Baird.

  Is there profit in generating an LLM application on a much narrower set of training data to sell it as a pay-service competitor to an ostensibly free alternative? It would need to pretty significantly more efficient or effective than the free alternative. I don’t question the usefulness of the technology since it’s already in-use, just the business case feasibility amidst the competitive environment.