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- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 15 hours ago:
Well sure. CEOs’ main job is to coordinate the functions of major business units with the wishes of shareholders/the board of directors. Ultimately they’re a middleman on the hook for the results of the business without actual direct control of day to day operations.
Effectively that means they give broad goals and direction to named execs, who translate those goals into actions for their organizations, that middle managers direct their teams to achieve. Then middle managers report success/failure to named execs, who report back to the CEO who (in conjunction with the other named execs) reports success/failure to shareholders & the board.
The execs all are basically on the hook for the results of the decisions made by those below them, but they only decide the broad strokes of the actions of the business.
LLMs could do most of that. The only problem is they can’t really make decisions properly. But they cpuld pretty easily turn what is said by the board & shareholders into goals for others to enact - and maybe determine if actions taken by the business support the goals to some degree.
That is like 80% of the job of a CEO.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 1 week ago:
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take your open chip bag
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fold the top of the bag down about 2cm/1in. Do this 2 more times.
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take the corners of the rolled part and fold them toward the middle of the rolled part at an angle
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the tricky part. We are going to invert the cuff we’ve made - like flip the rolled part inside out. Push those corners in and flip the rolled part over them.
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- Comment on A place for conservatives 1 week ago:
Overton window got yeeted so far to the right it ended up in 1930s germany
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 week ago:
Compliance does need to be considered. The company I work for is trying extremely hard to comply, but because of complexities and ambiguities in the law, it is difficult to find out how to comply. I don’t know all the details, but I know legal, compliance, and the data engineering teams spend a lot of time figuring out how to be compliant and there aren’t always clear answers.
That said, the solution is not to roll back protections.
- Comment on PSA: The Dangers of The Devil's Lettuce 1 week ago:
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- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
It stops taking as much effort eventually. Then you can tune out the noise and think about stuff. Or it never does because everyone is different, I guess, but then you just do what you have to do.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
That’s true. But finding inner quiet is an even more necessary skill in those situations. But, I’m autistic, so I totally get if the stimulation is just too much. Though I went through a lot of discomfort to be okay in environments like that.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
It’s good to enjoy quiet and not be constantly surrounding yourself with noise. It’s an important skill to be able to sit in silence and not rely on external stimulation to feel okay.
You’re probably not a buddhist, but the buddha warned about this like 2300 years ago. He said that “going to festivals” (they didn’t have recorded music back then of course, so that’swhere you heard it) and hearing the music is nice and enjoyable, but doing it too much would prevent you from spiritual development & mindfulness. Monks were even forbidden from singing, dancing, etc. and laypeople were just encouraged to stay mindful of their consumption.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 2 weeks ago:
It does not. The legal system has essentially lost the ability to be a check on the power of the executive branch. Partly because of regulatory capture and partly because of the speed at which the executive branch is acting illegally - it takes time to build cases and the jsutice system can’t keep up.
- Comment on Hmmmm 3 weeks ago:
¡Hola, compañeros perritos!
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 4 weeks ago:
Mormon Jesus made this deal too. LDS church gives tons of bibles to hotels worldwide to put their fanfic right next to the original boring version.
- Comment on AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable 1 month ago:
I am also learning to code and have been for years casually. In fact, I can program basic stuff in a couple languages.
I do not believe I am harming a single person by making scripts for myself and small team by using AI that allows me to produce better code while still being able to do my day job (which is not programming).
In fact, I learn a lot by using AI and having to do research. I learn more than I would on my own because being able to use LLMs to assist me has allowed me to take on projects that wouldn’t make sense for me to attempt if I had to spend weeks to get to the same outcome.
I am well aware of how LLMs work. I have read numerous articles, white papers, talked to ML engineers, etc. I know their limitations pretty well. I think they are much less capable than almost all laypeople I have spoken to about it.
All that is to say: LLMs have some legitimate use cases. They are wasteful, inaccurate, etc etc. But they have use cases. People are hyperbolic in both directions on them.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 1 month ago:
Yes. Although way fewer than I’d expect. Would recommend.
- Comment on AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable 1 month ago:
No, literally nothing like what I said. It could still be garbage if you didn’t understand or review the output. That’s why you understand and review the output.
- Comment on AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable 1 month ago:
I understand your perspective, but I do review the code. I also do extensive testing. I don’t use packages I’m unfamiliar with. I still read the docs. I don’t run code I don’t understand.
Again, the quality of the output really comes down to the user and the application. It is still faster for me to do what I’ve outlined above and it makes automating some tasks worth it in terms of ROI that otherwise wouldn’t be.
- Comment on AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable 1 month ago:
Most of the post is paywalled, but the main points seem to be that AI work is less creative/lower quality & people spend more time fixing it than they would have making it.
That has not been my experience. On the one hand ‘less creative’ - that’s true, I don’t think LLMs can be creative. But they can summarize information or rephrase/expand on things I say based on provided context. So I spend much less time on formatting and draft creation for text based documents. I can have an agent draft things for me and then I just tidy up.
As for low quality work products, again, not my experience. I use agentic AI regularly to automate simple but repetitive business tasks that would take me much longer to write code to automate. I am not an engineer, I am an analyst. I can code some things, but it is often not worth the time investment (many tasks are one-offs, etc).
A friend of mine made an AI agent using an agent that can interpret pictures of charts and find supporting data in our databases at work and/or make a copy of the chart and make modifications to it. Or it can create seaborn charts from text descriptions using data from our database. That is pretty powerful in terms of saving time.
It’s easy to shit on the tech, but it has legitimately useful applications that help productivity.
- Comment on Will Ivermectin Help? 1 month ago:
Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ad hominem fallacy. The person who has been exposed for various things, instead of trying to refute the argument of the accuser (e.g. “they’re misrepresenting the facts”, “I couldn’t have done that here’s an alibi”)
Instead, they are just accusing the accuser of something to make others distrust them. All of the examples youblisted were ad hominem attacks against your friend.
- Comment on The only Charlie Kirk quote worth sharing 2 months ago:
Wait is that shopped to make his face bigger?
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 months ago:
That was my first reaction. Using LLMs is a lot like being a manager. You have to describe goals/tasks and delegate them, while usually not doing any of the tasks yourself.
- Comment on I NEED to eat this! 2 months ago:
The 9th circle of Hell may be cold, but we promise your asshole won’t be!
- Comment on I NEED to eat this! 2 months ago:
It’s not Dante’s inferno, it’s DiGiorno
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 2 months ago:
Because Fascism doesn’t care about truth or reason
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 2 months ago:
They aren’t saying anything. The UK criminalized pro-Palestinian slogans in public. Namely the “Support Palestine Action” slogan. This guy has a shirt that says “Support Plasticene Action” which, notably, does not reference Palestine at all though the words have an aesthetic similarity to the Palestine slogan. So the pigs are trying to see if they can arrest him for hate speech or not.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
Death’s Door on switch. It’s a cute little soulslike where you play a crow who reaps souls. It has good gameplay and a nice style.
- Comment on Companies are monitoring and enforcing office attendance at the highest rate in 5 years 3 months ago:
It’s especially ironic because they aren’t that concerned about absenteeism in the sense of “people skipping out on work”. They’re concerned about people doing the requisite amount of work in a different place than the company would prefer
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 months ago:
What he “means” to the extent this isn’t just a shock value post meant to allow him to get a lot of responses before moving the goalposts & also to get a lot of nazis to like him more, is that:
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The epithet he used is a racist one used to describe how people who come from a poor background act once they get some money - often on flashy displays of wealth, but not often on investments/ensuring their wealth grows and lasts into the future.
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he is saying American billionaires fit that epithet because of how they spend their money. He calls them N*s because of how they spend money, not because they are black - he is not under the illusion that most billionaires are black.
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he’s saying they spend their money in foolish ways. He would prefer they spend their money abolishing the neoliberal state and replacing it with a neo-feudal monarchical system that makes all these billionaires literal feudal lords with fiefdoms. For him, this is the end-goal of wealth and the ideal societal state.
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- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 months ago:
This dude sucks so much. And everything I’ve ever read about him makes him seem like the most annoying kind in philosophy class who thinks he’s smart but is actually a dumbass.
- Comment on Final wishes 3 months ago:
oh no why shreks dick in the toothpaste