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You could replace this man with ChatGPT and his company would be more successful.
With the experiment that I believe Anthropic made I wouldn’t even be sure of that
Was that the one where the AI couldn’t even manage a vending machine?
To be fair if humans couldn’t directly fuck with the bot and it only had sales data and a catalogue, I think it could competently run the vending machine.
The issue is that the
unholy drink cloacacoke freestyle machines do it better without AI.
Hmm, I find it comforting that at least one C-suite type knows the definition of progress. It would have been worse if he said his idea of progress was “leveraging synergy to add value for all stakeholders”
Let’s parking lot that for now and circle back the next stand-up. Don’t forget to Slack the SME taking point on this vision.
I’m now angry for no reason. Thank you for the PTSD, lmao
”To increase profit we need to make more money”
This was said by a C-level suite at my work. Yeah, no shit Sherlock.
This is like the tips on a loading screen.
“If you are dying often, try using healing potions” “Try focusing on an enemy’s weak points”
The more common way these guys increase profit is by lowering costs, and the only way they’ve figure out how to do that is by laying off a bunch of people, so this is actually a step in the right direction at least.
Now I’m wondering whether their solution is to appeal to more customers or to raise prices. What am I saying. Of course it’s the latter.
They ended up laying off a bunch of people either way. Still unprofitable though.
the only way they’ve figure out how to do that is by laying off a bunch of people
Weirdly enough, another way to lower costs would be to have everybody work from home so you don’t have to pay for office space. Yet the overwhelming trend is away from WFH.
Because that decreases the value of their commercial real estate investments
I know that’s usually given as the reason, but I think most companies rent. I dunno.
Because they’re also power-hungry assholes who like to watch people scurry around an office on their whim. That and they figure that they’d slack off at home and do nothing, so of course their workers will too, and how would they know?
I mean, if “making money” = revenue, then increasing revenue, assuming you’re making a profit, will increase profits…but you could also work on your costs and increase profits while keeping revenue constant
“because of inflation, costs are rising”
Literally begging the question!
It’s so hard to refute this one. They’re obviously closely linked, but that makes associations so much stronger in people’s minds.
I remember physics class. Our teacher was desperately trying to explain that, in circular motion, the resulting force is THE RESULT of adding all others, and that resulting force results in circular motion, not some magical additional force because something is turning. Just like your quote, cause and effect were reversed. (Resp. rather, instead of cause, rising costs are inflation.)
Same when they interview coaches after a game.
“What do you think went wrong, and what can you do to improve it”
“Well, I think mainly our problem was, we didn’t score more points than the opposing team. That was a major contributing factor to our loss. I think in the future, we need to focus more on scoring more points, and not allowing the opposing team to score more points than us.”
Seriously, sports interviews are the worst!
Chess interviews are pretty good occasionally
Well except in that case the coaches and players don’t actually give a fuck. They are contractually obligated to be there and say something to morons trying to bait them into viral clips
They respond by spitting out canned responses
This is not a problem with sports, if sports was left alone I promise you the coach wouldn’t be volunteering to go give a recap of a 3 nothing loss to a team outside the division in the middle of the season
I know Scott Adams is not someone to be promoted for his personal views, but Dilbert is so much a reflection of reality it’s unreal.
It’s because Adams just drew the stories other people sent him.
And the stuff he saw himself. He mentioned in an interview once that he kept his office job for a long time after making it big with Dilbert because he got so much material.
This is pretty typical in middle management across the board.
Why can I not see so many pictures on here? E.g.
You have some setting mucking it up. In my case, I think it’s my VPN.
The MBA class
Moves the cup of coffee forward, looks at you, expecting a response
I remember borrowing a friend’s MBA textbook just for laughs. I particularly remember the chapter on “Negotiating”, which included a boxed section that said “Your skill at negotiating will affect the outcome of the negotiations.”
That does make sense in a The Art of War way. There is no magic thing you can do that will automatically finish the negotiations in your favour, you need to actually use your own skills.
I know someone who told me (in French) M.B.A stands for “Moins Bon qu’Avant”, that translates to “less good than before”.
This reads like a loading screen tip
“You can use your backpack to store things”.
To shoot things press the shoot button.
“How good you are at something will dictate how good you are at that thing.”
Get this person a promotion!
No way!
Mind blown!
Dont take Flatulia if you’re allergic to the ingredients in Flatulia. Ask your doctor about taking Flatulia
“I don’t recommend Flatulia.”
“Why not, doc?”
“They haven’t sent a 30-something hottie around to take me to lunch yet.”
Reminds of doctors on about idiopathic ailments, like they’ve the answer. … Also likely partly why so much ill-health everywhere.
Should we all pretend we’re starting at the same place or should it be explicit?
And yes, this post is nonsense. There’s no three dudes in a Starbucks discussing strategy or whatever this is. But would it be better that we all labor under false assumptions, or should we have someone be like, hey, this is the baseline, let’s go from here?
Lemmy’s opinion is obviously “Linux or bust!”
Maybe a little less caffeine? Try a nice herbal tea once in a while. Like chamomile.
Mark Carney’s Davos speech in a nutshell.
That was your takeaway? Not the “
rulesbased international order”?
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Credit: Adult Children
Progress is moving forwards to the target destination. If you take a wrong turn in the fork you might still be moving forward but not progressing.
One could argue that’s regression and moving backwards.
Return to monkey is progress.
Claude Lévi-Strauss theorised that human progress actually happens without a clear goal and doesn’t follow a straight line, but rather goes in leaps, changing direction…
Surely these alpha brains were discussing this!
I wasn’t expecting that from Levi Strauss of all people.
Martin Luther King Jr’s similar quote is that the moral arc may not be straight, but it bends towards justice. I’m far from being an optimist, but i think humanity generally progresses to better moral values. The hiccups and backlash we see are typically from people who are resistant to changes because they are more comfortable with what they grew up to be familiar in, even if it’s wrong.
humanity generally progresses to better moral values
Because those with bad morals just don’t last as long. Rebellion and corruption bring them down sooner or later.
Also, I’d argue, because reality isn’t a zero-sum game. We simply earn more by working together and helping each other, and so more altruistic societies are more resilient. Over time this might average out into morally better societies winning out more than they lose out
That doesn’t mean they can’t lose out, though
A lot also depends on what the society does. If it’s only resource extraction, you give people a pick axe and whip them until they start digging. If you want people to do science and engineering, you have to take care of people or you’ll have subpar results.
That is how you create an illusion of being important and busy. These gentlemen are really skilled.
The Business Management Class is a bloated demographic sector that is 90% redundant, and nobody is more aware of it that they are. They know the fasted way to increased profits is to fire them, so they are desperate to justify their importance, and throw underlings under the bus instead of themselves.
