Somewhere amid all the Congressional hearings called for by all of this, though, someone simply must find time to break Elon Musk on the fucking wheel.

The dream.

There’s a thing in our culture where we simultaneously tell people to work hard, and to become the guy at the top who doesn’t work.

CEOs and managers and such often don’t really do much work. They’re not in the weeds making the thing go. They don’t spot that O(n^2) algorithm and fix it so the site doesn’t go down under load. They send a message that says “site seems slow”, and someone actually fixes it.

This is a problem all over. The people we let make decisions aren’t the people doing the work. They don’t know how things work.

AI creates a smaller version of this. It turns you into an idiot leader, but without the benefit of taking all the profits from labor.

Where does “I did a web search and found an answer on an AI generated source” land? I feel like the Internet is increasingly infected, and finding actual answers to stuff is hard.

A member of the general public can’t issue a citation.

My lawyer tells me it’s a “crime” to smash the windows of an illegally parked car. Even if they’re double parked in the bike lane.

This month management started quietly asking us to “write more of it ourselves” again.

I think… I think there’s a chance that if I was in-person, and this happened, there would be violence.

It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and poor critical thinking, so they think everyone is basically like them. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except they’re also a bunch of toxic submissive types that will always yield to perceived authority.

They’re shit people. Failures to live up to human potential.

As the spokesperson put it, the robot’s actions may legally constitute fleeing the scene of a traffic incident, meaning Starship Technologies could very well be on the hook for the incident.

Good. Nail them to the wall.

Yes, because they are incompetent. They are not fit to be decision makers. Fucking get rid of them.

I’m so tired of work being a fucking nightmare because the people in charge are high on their own farts.

Nationally, 66% of young people ages 18-29 voted for a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, compared to 31% for a Republican candidate (NORC Civic Health & Elections Project).

There’s always this ~30% insane floor. Like, about a third of the population are just broken in their heads. I don’t know how you can run a society indefinitely like that.

They don’t care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.

Isn’t this illegal in new york now? https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel

Maybe not if it technically doesn’t add extra clicks

That’s a lot of money that could have been spent on useful things. What a scum bag

I’d be okay with getting even on my behalf.

Ew. I think a lot of people won’t care because they’re kind of thoughtless children

At the risk of repeating myself, “dying of whiteness” was a pretty interesting and depressing look at this. Turns out a lot of people would rather suffer if it means those people have it worse.

The opportunity cost remains large. That renewable energy could have been spent elsewhere, on something useful.

This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.

Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.

It definitely seems like we’re setting ourselves up for a dystopia, where no one knows how to do software anymore. Like the time machine or Idiocracy. Management just wants short term gains, and they don’t care if there’s no one around in 10 years with any experience

It’s like that “how many times do we have to teach you this lesson” meme. It’s capitalism. Capitalism always does this. The people calling the shots and keeping the profits aren’t the people doing the work.