I feel like a Cassandra since I was warning about this for years now.

The gender equality narrative got too focused on excluding men specifically, instead of including the less represented gender in each profession. Somehow the idea was that men are privileged in the system and women oppressed, while the truth is that both men and women are oppressed.

Divide and conquer was a small step away from that point.

Their shopping experience is so much worse than only 3 years ago. Whatever they are doing, they are doing it wrong.

Yes, but it’s also the most logical place. What other activity do you dedicate so much time to? Maybe sleeping but it’s hard to build a community around that.

I’m starting to understand that many people never felt the sense of community, in the workplace or otherwise. Yes it’s possible.

The trick is that it doesn’t depend on the company, it depends on the people. Last time it happened to me, we pretty much all quit together because we were frustrated at the company but kept being friends afterwards.

A chess-specific algorithm beat a language model at chess. Shocking!

Try training a chess model. Actually I think it’s already been done, machines have been consistently better at chess than humans for a while now.

Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.

Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn’t function according to any understandable human psychology

Finally, a good use case for AI

I’m always surprised how many employees these companies have. 18.400?

Working in a large software company myself I shouldn’t be surprised, the level of inefficiency is amazing. I’ve seen less inertia in government agencies. Dilbert comics were supposed to be an exaggeration, they’re not.

I’m not sure there will be a difference either way. Customer service jobs spent decades trying to train humans to act as much as robots as possible. Of course replacing them with a shitty bot seemed to make sense, they were already pretending to be shitty bots.
Any “quality” in customer support comes from individuals circumventing company rules to provide actual support to the customer. AI can’t do that.