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New comment by fullshark in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

fullshark — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:15:39 +0000

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

New comment by fullshark in "Please Use AI"

fullshark — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:32:23 +0000

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.

New comment by fullshark in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

fullshark — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:12:34 +0000

The ideal career path

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

New comment by fullshark in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

fullshark — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:04:57 +0000

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.

New comment by fullshark in "Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now"

fullshark — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:17:54 +0000

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.

New comment by fullshark in "Stephen Colbert represented the worst of establishment liberalism"

fullshark — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:47:29 +0000

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.

New comment by fullshark in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

fullshark — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:39:24 +0000

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.

New comment by fullshark in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

fullshark — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:57:20 +0000

That sounds pretty useful

New comment by fullshark in "Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital'"

fullshark — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:36:47 +0000

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

New comment by fullshark in "Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital'"

fullshark — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:55:16 +0000

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.

New comment by fullshark in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

fullshark — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:15:23 +0000

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.

New comment by fullshark in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

fullshark — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:01:48 +0000

What's are the positives for local communities for data centers? I see only negatives. At least prisons have to hire people.

New comment by fullshark in "AI is wiping out entry-level jobs"

fullshark — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:07:58 +0000

> if nobody has any money?

This is clearly false, the K shaped economy framing does ring true to me and you are describing the lower half of the K. Those millenials (and younger) with crippling student loans, no savings, and unmarketable skills are a major voting block and will definitely have an impact on policy. The size of the impact will be determined by their level of anger and ability to essentially convince the upper half of the K to go along with wealth transfers (traditionally not easy to do).

New comment by fullshark in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

fullshark — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:48:37 +0000

Down round = the destruction of the United States is ridiculous hyperbole.

New comment by fullshark in "Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution"

fullshark — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:42:57 +0000

I have this hope too but social media is junk food now, and junk food is a very lucrative product. People don't seem to care as long as it's engaging.

New comment by fullshark in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

fullshark — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:31:54 +0000

That will happen inevitably, we are throwing spaghetti at the wall right now, and cleaning up the mess, lessons will be learned. The question is whether that phase will lead to real lasting damage and to what. For myself I no longer read cold emails, I believe they are all AI generated, and that communication method may legitimately die culturally. What else will be destroyed?

New comment by fullshark in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

fullshark — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:36:41 +0000

They are both right, the revolution needs to be oriented for ordinary people and college kids to benefit from it or else their attitude is wholly justified. There's basically no reason for them to cheer on a future of trillion dollar corporations using AI services to battle for knowledge work market share.

New comment by fullshark in "I work in Hollywood. Everyone who used to make TV is now training AI"

fullshark — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:06:18 +0000

A lot of money was thrown around the last 10 years trying to pump up entertainment companies in a bid to either take over the industry in a winner take all streaming world or get acquired. Now that the consolidation has finished, it's about cutting back. How Paramount has managed Star Trek, and where it is now is informative in my opinion here.

New comment by fullshark in "AI slop is killing online communities"

fullshark — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:05:30 +0000

Why would reddit bots exist? (In)organic advertising, same concept here.

New comment by fullshark in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

fullshark — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:36:17 +0000

It's also where autocracies fail spectacularly and lead to decades of misery for their citizens.