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New comment by throwawayoldie in "Accenture to 'exit' staff that cannot be retrained for age of AI"

throwawayoldie — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:44:45 +0000

You're not wrong, but I have one nit to pick: let's not dignify what MBAs do by calling it "leadership". They're barely "management".

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

throwawayoldie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:13:37 +0000

I don't love your silly theory. It sounds like you're in denial, trying to cope with the fact that not everyone thinks LLMs are the greatest thing since flush toilets.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

throwawayoldie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:55:07 +0000

It's a different world than it was ten years ago. Among the ways it's different are people are far more skeptical of billionaires, Big Tech, and capitalism generally. They're willing to cut them much less slack. This is one of the few ways that the world of today is better than the world of ten years ago.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

throwawayoldie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:50:54 +0000

And a Fortune 500 company has never done anything stupid.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

throwawayoldie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:50:12 +0000

Quick question: if there is a paid anti-AI movement, where do I send my invoice? May as well not leave money on the table.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

throwawayoldie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:57:01 +0000

Yes he's rich and influential and blah blah blah blah blah and he's also AN ENORMOUS FUCKING DORK with the intellectual depth of a half-empty bottle of salad dressing. For all his money I'd rather be me than him.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

throwawayoldie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:30:21 +0000

Not to put words in the OP's mouth, but I think that was the joke.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

throwawayoldie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:28:39 +0000

BRB got a book I have to lick real quick.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

throwawayoldie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:16:57 +0000

I have a copy of the classic "Joy Of Cooking" in the kitchen. It was a lot cheaper, works perfectly every time, and doesn't get ruined if (when) I spill foodstuffs on it.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "When the job search becomes impossible"

throwawayoldie — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:02:37 +0000

As a friend of mine put it, "I don't know if UBI would take people out of the workforce, but it would probably take me out of the workforce."

New comment by throwawayoldie in "When the job search becomes impossible"

throwawayoldie — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:47:00 +0000

> I think a lot of people simply don't know what to do with themselves when they don't have a job.

I would be perfectly happy without a job. It's the income I'm concerned about.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change"

throwawayoldie — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:42:01 +0000

In 10 years, the management (or "leadership" if you like the taste of boot) responsible for doing the cutting will have moved on to something else, with no consequences for them.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

throwawayoldie — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:02:22 +0000

I suspect that for every grandpa who likes telling war stories, there are probably a hundred who get quiet and sullen when the war comes up and have to excuse themselves and go be alone for a while.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

throwawayoldie — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:58:44 +0000

Maybe it would help if I describe it as being in the Extremely East Bay. Like, about 3,000 miles east.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

throwawayoldie — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:05:43 +0000

It's good. Not that big though. But what there is, is worth seeing.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

throwawayoldie — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:05:03 +0000

> It's disappointing to see but it feels as if to keep a futuristic theme and to provide almost an "edutainment" environment that a museum feels as though it must implement screens to keep up with the times.

And you just know that in board meetings of plenty of museums, someone is saying "We NeEd To MaKe ThE mUsEuM Ai-NaTiVe."

New comment by throwawayoldie in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

throwawayoldie — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:01:55 +0000

No, this is complaining that the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has gotten worse over the decades.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Hallucination Risk Calculator"

throwawayoldie — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:28:01 +0000

> Yesterday I used ChatGPT to transform a csv file. Move around a couple of columns, add a few new ones. Very large file.

I'm struggling with trying to understand how using an LLM to do this seemed like a good idea in the first place.

New comment by throwawayoldie in "The Storm Hits the Art Market"

throwawayoldie — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:53:25 +0000

People have a tendency to uncritically take techies' claims as facts.

[Stares aggressively in the direction of gen AI.]

New comment by throwawayoldie in "Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays"

throwawayoldie — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:47:27 +0000

And the more successful of them have probably traded up to cocaine.