lljk_kennedy

Edit: removing my comment

> Hire 1 or 2 accountants, give them a chair and a cubicle, and let AI do the rest of the work.

You're so close to describing a Universal Basic Income...

Spiderman: "Y'see, the problem-uh... with you people-uh... in this business-uh..."

Now _that's_ the kind of 10x engineering I can get behind!

Remember SETI@home? Extrapolate from there.

The first communicated a feeling. A brief flutter in the soul of a picture of recognition, painted for your mind's eye with care by the author.

The second transcribed considerable information bandwidth through intentionally structured word choice for maximal density.

More eyes or more bribes?

"No-one can match out tririme fleet, or move men as quickly through the Mediterranean" - Athens circa 440 CE

[citation needed]

Reality left the building a long time ago. I think a lot of world models of how things "should" go are severely outdated.

Oddly, the strange handheld look and constant reframing of the talking head shots are pulling me wildly out of focus and distracting me terribly. Wonder what drove the choice to do it.

netdix.com

This sounds more like post-hiring admin, unless you're discriminating against parents?

Bullshit work, in other words.

Sell at high, buy at low?

I find it hard to blame the workers in this story... it's a poor indictment of the management if they only checked in 3 months later and got this surprise - no wonder the company collapsed!

Are you paid significantly more for your newfound productivity?

Source for it being a "trap"? Got some evidence to share?

Failure of the markets, and capitalism in general. Surely if the markets worked properly there would be ample housing due to demand?

Hm. I read the title differently - that we create "A" personal website to break the monopoly of the "All" websites like the social media sites he mentions.

The singular destroys the monolithic many.

This sounds just as bad as yolo-merges, just on the other end of the spectrum.

It's 75 minutes to _communicate_ the message to customers. Definitely internal teams were ahead of this before it was posted to the AWS Health Dashboard. Status Page posts are lagging indicators of incident progress.

"This is important enough for someone to work on as soon as their shift starts, but not important enough to page someone out of bed for."

Wholly inaccurate. AWS Systems Engineers would have been paged by automated monitoring systems once alert thresholds were breached. No escalation through Support needed.

Thank you, I came to say this too. You're mushing your humans harder, and they'll break. Those 5 mins of downtime post-call aren't 100% note taking - it's catching their breath, trying to re-compose after dealing with a nasty customer, trying to re-energise after a deep technical session etc.

I think AI in general is just being misused to optimise local minima in detriment to the overall system.

You're right, of course. Notice I edited out the Swan Lake reference in my quote - https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/1029437787/in-1991-soviet-cit...

> One of my nightmares is waking up one morning and discovering that the power is out, the internet is down, my cell phone doesn’t work

I dunno.... as I get older, this sounds more and more idyllic

Today? In this current version of America? You like the idea of being deployed internally against protestors? Or maybe, Greenland sounds like a nice holiday spot?

My intersect of "people I like" and "people I have to spend time with" is likely smaller than yours.

It's like worrying about moving bits on a hard drive, or writing nice machine code. Eventually you just won't care. AI / LLMs interacting with code bases in future won't care about structure, clearness, conciseness etc. They'll tokenize it all the same.