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Mass Firings for Charlie Kirk Comments Appear Coordinated

moc_was_wronged — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:04:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/13/business/charlie-kirk-death-fired-comments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236346

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New comment by moc_was_wronged in "Fundamental Flaw of Hustle Culture"

moc_was_wronged — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:29:48 +0000

The lottery is, famously, a tax on people who don’t understand probability.

Hustle culture is a tax on people who think they will always be in the top 0.01% if they just manifest hard enough.

New comment by moc_was_wronged in "Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity"

moc_was_wronged — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:24:19 +0000

Large language models have their place, but they’re quite limited and no real substitute for human intelligence or judgement at its best.

That said, abusive corporate environments (and they’re pretty much all abusive) turn people into automatons. Execs can thus wave LLMs around and say, “Look, you’re so useless a machine can do your job.”

And even then it does a shitty job. It misses special cases and causes messes. But it’s cheap in the short term, which is all that matters to the boss’s career. Things will go to shit in a few years, but if you’re good at executive social climbing, you are three promotions away from your bad decisions by the time anyone figures out that’s what they were.