Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
“We have to kill AI artist” keeps getting repeated and whenever someone complains the response is “it’s just a meme bro.” Well, that’s a step along the path that leads here. Repeat a slogan long enough and loudly enough and someone ends up thinking it’s social permission.
You’re overestimating his math abilities.
And I don’t know how else to explain that your laughter is misplaced because you’re going to suffer right along with everyone else anyway.
You’re saving a bit on gas by taking public transit. Whee, bully for you. Lots of people save a bit by doing little things to save money. I keep the thermostat in my house lower than most people do because I like wearing fluffy housecoats instead, but I’m not laughing. It doesn’t protect you when everything gets more expensive.
You’ll have the same amount of money, but things will cost more so you won’t be able to buy as much.
This is some very basic economics.
Do you sometimes find yourself needing to buy things? Those need to be shipped to the places where you buy them. And the parts they’re made of need to be shipped to the places where they’re manufactured. You pay for all that when you buy them.
If some weird genie wish suddenly granted me the ability to rewrite the American constitution from the ground up, I think my main focus would be to end the two-party system by switching Congress to proportional representation.
After that, a lot depends on the details of the genie wish. If I can impose whatever changes I wanted I’d probably go further - a drastic reduction of presidential power is an obvious step, perhaps have both a president and a prime minister like many European countries do with the duties split between them. Strict term limits might also be good, though I’d want to study that issue a bit more - there are some upsides to having very experienced politicians in government along with the obvious downsides we’re seeing.
The Supreme Court needs reform, maybe give the judges a fixed term so that they don’t end up stuck with random health conditions determining who gets to appoint who and for how long. More broadly, we’re seeing a lot of flaws in the judicial branch and law enforcement that need correcting. Maybe have multiple Department of Justices with separate leadership to keep each other in check? Tricky.
Or just put an AI in charge of it all and see what happens.
It’s “No KingS”. They’re allowed to have one.
Oh the tantrum we’re about to see. That ballroom was Trump’s favorite soother.
Yet another area where the big companies are voluntarily leaving money on the table for the open model users to rake in. I approve.
This is exactly as designed. The whole point of a prediction market is to encourage people who are knowledgeable about a subject to expose that knowledge in the form of bets. We should want people with inside information to be doing this to make the predictions more accurate.
If you don’t have inside information or special knowledge then you probably shouldn’t be gambling like that yourself. It’d be like buying stocks on the stock market without knowing anything about the industries the stocks are from.
A classic case of making a ridiculously restrictive change, then “walking it back” to a merely semi-ridiculous change and having everyone sigh in relief.
Fill it with white powder and the reaction will cause more damage than a bomb would have caused.
I mean, do those headcount numbers count contractors?
I linked the source for my information, feel free to dig into it for more detail.
Beyond that, unless you have an actual source for the culture shift beyond ‘you think so’
I literally said I didn’t know whether there had been a culture shift. Reread the last line of my comment. All I’m doing here is pointing out that your own view on the subject is likely very outdated at this point. There’s been enormous employee turnover, including right to the top CEO position, and other major companies have merged into Microsoft in the interim.
I’m willing to bet it is now even worse.
Based on?
I’m not doubting your previous experience. I’m just pointing out that it was a long time ago and a lot has happened since then, so I’d like to hear some more recent evidence.
The Red Ring of Death was around 2009 or so, Windows 8 rolled out in 2012. That was 14 years ago now.
The median tenure of employment at Microsoft is 5.3 years, so most of those 94,000 employees will be long gone by now.
Also, Satya Nadella took over in 2014 and made major changes to the corporate culture from the earlier Balmer era. Stack ranking was abolished, there were major corporate acquisitions that brought external corporate cultures inside (eg LinkedIn, GitHub, ZeniMax/Bethesda, Activision Blizzard, Nokia).
I have no idea what Microsoft’s current internal culture is like but I think your impression is likely quite outdated by this point.
For someone who likes digging around in my Reddit history you’d think you’d be able to find something that was actually relevant to the topic at hand. That was a comment about the uses of agentic coding tools for making custom applications, not about building bots.
The only thing keeping the bot population low here is that there just aren’t enough people here to be worth it yet. If the Fediverse grows they’ll come in greater numbers.
There’s a master “kill switch” for all AI features in Firefox now. I suggest everyone who’s concerned about this kind of thing just go and turn it off, and then we need never bother each other over this again.
And also, people are really spoiled with existing internet speeds. When I joined the Internet it was still relying on telephone modems for much of the connectivity. There’s plenty you can do with that. The Fediverse, right here, is an example - just ordinary text communication.
It had some technical issues earlier on but it’s up and running right now. Looks pretty active.
We could do with fewer “wins” that involve shooting at people and their kids.