They’re still planning on making a new Xbox? Sometimes I forget there’s an Xbox console anymore.

How much do executive payouts, lobbying, and marketing costs take out from those profit margins?

I tried scanning one of those digital coupon things they print on paper and the employee was called over three times in that one transaction.

Absolutely. I have to have regular conversations with my manager about career progression because in the surveys they highly encourage people to take, people said they felt stagnant in their careers. Well now we have to pretend to have a productive conversation on career progression while the stagnation remains, but managers have to come up with an excuse why so-and-so didn’t get a promotion during performance review time (usually it’s “you’re so close, but we’re looking for more X” where X can change to whatever is convenient to deny a promotion).

On top of that, they now ask us how we use AI in our daily work because they’re desperate for “AI wins”.

OpenAI has published a report

Into the trash it goes.

Election interference only matters sometimes, I guess.

They don’t call it penis, they call it pizzle instead.

I love dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, all of it. I don’t get the elitism over a matter of taste.

They can be trained to understand the distinction.

No it can’t because of how LLMs work. All “safety” built on top of models now are just band-aids and bubble gum stuck in strategic areas hoping that cases get caught.

How the hell did these lawyers do their jobs before?

I also yearn to catch some sun when I’m stuck working.

It’s simply a matter of what genes get passed on. That still applies even with gene editing.

Reminds me of those people claiming they’re “10x more productive” and “doing the work of entire teams”. With so much increased productivity, I would assume these results would be plainly visible through rapidly improving featureful applications, but instead we see declining quality in established software (e.g. windows 11) and a whole lot of garbage nobody wants to deal with like slop PR spam and these app releases.

There are multiple goals in mind such as surveillance, pumping the stock market, taking control out of people’s hands, excuses to do things like lay people off, etc. In this case or in general for local governments, it’s a matter of a select number of people getting a lot of money in their pockets and thus pushing for these data centers to happen.

What policies does he promote?

One problem with capitalism is that everything is for sale, including the government. The AI industry is intentionally positioning themselves as “too big to fail” so that they can guarantee a government bailout. As for the dotcom bubble, sure the smaller players were allowed to fail, but that just meant more room for the larger players like google and amazon to take over and now they’re definitely too big to fail. With AI, we already have a small handful of huge players and they’ve convinced the government that this is a matter of national security.

On top of that, people’s retirements are more tied to the stupid stock market than ever before, so the government will use that as an excuse to bail out these companies, hence the rush to IPO and enter indexes.

Oh, so the store can’t actually “cut labor fairly easy”.

Even worse than getting a “hi” or “hello” is “?”. I don’t know where people learned to do that, but I’ve had more than one person start a conversation in Teams or Slack with “?” and it always makes me think I did something wtf-worthy to just get a “?” out of nowhere. Apparently it’s their way of asking if I’m available.

All these people don’t seem to understand the advantage of asynchronous text messaging where you can greet and ask a question at the same time.

Then why are they ever running any more than a skeleton crew? For fun? You claim they could easily cut labor, but if it was that easy then they would’ve done it already. They’re always looking to maximize profit.

I’m sure you could also pull up stories of the “welfare queen” by searching those words, but that doesn’t mean it’s as widespread or as big of a problem as portrayed.