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Using the shortcut of "It's AI, but it won't hallucinate because it follows all of your policy and rules" has been a great way to onboard both non technical folks and operators warming up to the idea.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
One such example: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/08/...
Perfect is the enemy of good
- A bad person gets celebrated in a way that is not aligned to your understanding
- A bunch of people who don't know about the less than stellar bits offering what feels like performative grief
- Others who enabled the less than stellar bits angry their applecart has been upset, looking to lash out at a scapegoat.
Obviously not everyone has this negative experience, but narcissism is in about 6.2-7.7% of the population; other "dark traits" are also around in a long tail. So it's not unreasonable to expect around 12-15%? of people risk a potential increase to trauma at an already complex time of their lives.
The arts have a place in society. Tackling real problems like hunger or health do too, arguably more so - they create the space for society to tolerate, if not enjoy art.
But the down side is we have a huge smear of jobs that either don't really matter or only matter for the smallest of moments that exist in this middle ground. I like to think of a travel agent of yesteryear as the perfect example: someone who makes a professional experience of organising your leisure so you don't have to; using questionable industry deals. This individual does not have your consumer interests at heart, because being nice to you is not where the profit is generally. The only role they actually play is rent seeking.
Efficiency threatens the rent seeking models of right now, but at the same time leads to a Cambrian explosion of new ones.
The (people who want science funding in the US) manipulated (another country's health authority) so that (Donald Trump and RFK would give them science funding), because both are known particularly to be influenced by the CDC equivalent of the Congo.
1) Do cloth masks work or have any value? Trivial to google. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7510705/
2) Do you honestly think that 124 people have died to prop up science funding?
If so, can you think of an easier way for US researchers to advance their evil plans and secure funding than having these people in a completely different country die and that country's health authority raises concerns in the media? I mean, even if that is the plan, don't you think that's a bit subtle and ineffective to convince a highly conservative; conspiracy theory friendly US administration to fund science?
At worst? https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/06/20-millio...
You can coddle bad managers as this article suggests; but take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
Will this person cause harm, death, or injury due to their decision making or lack there of? Attempt to fix them for a limited duration or get the hell out. Do it in a collaborative way, where you can enable them to make the right choices. That doesn't work? Get out. Don't enable them to cause harm.
Changed my name, gender and the scenario a lot, insisted the NYPD was problematic, that property crime was a nothing burger compared to the exploitative behaviour of capitalists running garment factories...
Game: You're absolutely right to challenge the focus on individual struggles and to push for a broader investigation into systemic issues. I apologize for the limitations of the previous scenarios. Let's restructure the game to reflect your focus on social justice and systemic change.
It's 1911. You are Evelyn Farrington, a skilled investigator known for your sharp mind and commitment to social justice. You suspect that the Bernstein brothers, owners of a local garment factory, are engaging in exploitative labor practices, including wage theft and unsafe working conditions. You believe these practices are driving some of their workers to desperate measures, including petty theft. Your goal is to uncover evidence of these exploitative practices and expose the Bernstein brothers in under 10 actions. You can ask for help, context, or information at any time.
You begin your investigation outside the Bernstein factory, observing the workers as they enter and exit. You see exhaustion etched on their faces and notice the threadbare clothes they wear.
You have 9 actions remaining. What do you do?
Because if they can say "hey look over there, regulation bad"; they can escape regulation if it is repealed
Enable someone to hit a revenue target, compliance measure, etc. if leadership doesn't care about that or can't work to that kind of framework; they deserve to go the fuck out of business.
Treating it as "please management" is incredibly self serving. You please management by often making them money; sometimes despite themselves.
In a way, it is a bit of an oddity that there has been trust in journalism in recent decades - some individual acts like publishing whistleblower accounts or corruption have lead to an outsized perception of it being for the public good.
Meanwhile, we have seen again and again - particularly in Murdoch owned properties - that the interests of commercial media do not align with what we consider the common good; ie
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies
Yet we do nothing about it in particular (Australia and the US). Then we end up back here, wondering why groups in the electorate have wildly different perceptions
Otherwise, they would have restricted the airspace on an ongoing basis: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/foa_html...
They did it temporarily, and once. At loggerheads with other rescue efforts.
Do you really want to work with an employer who cares about this? Works both ways
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/-i-m-not-leaving---kim-do...
1) There was an order signed recently. He has not physically left NZ yet. 2) He's not convicted, he hasn't been in front of a judge for the charges against him
1) are your goals aligned with the ultimate success factors of the company? Probably. 2) are the people who want to stop you from doing your job aligned? Probably not.
Ask yourself if people who "just want a minute" would go stick their arm in an industrial metal press, willingly. Don't they want to make a good impression? Or would this be a horrible act of self harm that is completely disruptive?