fullshark

Because we don’t want to be left behind as members of the permanent underclass. Unless you own the god machine or work on improving it you don’t matter.

And therefore unable to be criticized by OP?

That quote doesn't support the headline

Possibly unlimited so long as the hot and cool people are on the platform.

Kind of a stretch, these days can't imagine anyone that views instagram as a place to store their cherished photos also.

I "bought" a few digital kids movies because kids want to watch them over and over and I didn't want to deal with handling physical media.

Ten years ago maybe this causes outrage, but I'm not sure anyone cares in 2026 including potential customers.

Alternatives are boring, expensive, or require effort.

What am I gonna do, not look at content?

Agreed that's the only way this makes any sense.

So they "draft" their own workers to create toy examples to train/evaluate LLAMA performance? Is this a temporary role/rotation? That seems goofy.

Because they are supported by the Chinese government for the purpose of undermining US capital investments.

I clearly did not say that, re-read and try again.

There's a lot of thoughtful responses to your histrionics, I suggest you take a breath and actually engage with the ideas contained within them.

It's at best a weak check by the populace on two rival gangs of the ruling class. It's certainly not what its proponents claim it to be.

Yeah yeah we're all above such gauche matters, it's only the entire reason SWEs have high paying jobs, paper wealth, and all the comforts that come with both, including the freedom to earn enough to walk away and act like you're above it all.

(I obviously don't know your circumstances but am commenting about a general phenomenon I see parroted by many professionally successful SWEs who seem to take glee in being ignorant of economics/finance while enjoying the spoils.)

What a relief, it won't be 100% but just to the extent that Amazon does it in their warehouses.

Money and/or visa sponsorship obviously. Some things are more important than internet cool points.

My single minded focus is getting my finances in order so I don't need to work in this industry (financial independence) past 50. It's just getting worse and worse in terms of the open contempt for employees from the top down with no end in sight. Once you reach 50 it's just luck of the draw whether or not you are in the annual culling of the senior folks.

There's no excuse anymore for being ignorant of how this industry works, the mask has been off for years.

He'll only be a multibillionare instead of a trillionaire?

All I can think of is people who need those accounts for professional reasons (i.e. public relations)

Just because it's nondeterministic doesn't mean they don't understand it. In fact those people can mold it and love doing so, it's like they can finally direct the humans that they feel forced to interact with as they always wanted to.

The ideal career path

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1jgcfx9/pe...

There's no way managers using LLMs to answer emails are burning tokens at a comparable rate to someone trying to utilize inference in production systems is.

Businesses or maybe public figures that use these platforms for PR i kind of get it. Everything else they described just seemed depressing to me, taking advantage of the incredibly vain.

There's much worse. His show on comedy central was fabulous satire, his show on CBS was embarrassing. Hopefully he'll go back to some more edgy material and actually be funny again.

Because they aren't getting cut cause of AI. They are getting cut cause of the uncertainty re: future revenue streams AI is bringing. These layoffs are driven by fear and leadership lacking any vision for how the post AI world looks for their company. Their solution is to tighten the belts, which of course opens the window further for the AI companies to actually write software and make them obsolete.

That sounds pretty useful

The logical next step is then regulation is it not? I don't hear a lot of clamor for regulation on these boards.

The CEO has a fiduciary duty to act in the best financial interests of the company and its investors. So if slavery were legal and the company weren’t using slaves the CEO would be in violation of that responsibility and would be thrown out by the board.

It’s best just to view these organizations and the people who run them as immoral and sociopathic money printing machines. Expecting morality is just going to disappoint you.

I'm not that cynical, I think they got stars in their eyes, were charmed at the idea of doing business with big money / tech and didn't do any actual cost/benefit analysis. Maybe they get an opportunity to make a very powerful friend/crony and took it without considering their duty to their constituents.